Intersoft WebGrid Enterprise gives you most powerful DataGrid component for ASP.NET Web development, with a host of innovative features that allows the control to display large data in highly efficient manner. WebGrid provides comprehensive Grid functionalities enabling enterprise-class information to be delivered in hierarchical layout with sophisticated user interactions, allowing users to work with the information in a more effective and productive way.

In version 8, WebGrid has been refined to fully support the latest web standards. This allows you to use many of the advanced WebGrid features in your next-generation web applications and at the same time leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.

The following list details the enhancements and new features introduced in WebGrid 8.

• Full compliance with HTML5 doc type.
  
  HTML5 doc type enables consistent results and pixel-perfect rendering across all modern browsers that support HTML5.
  
  The following features have been enhanced to support HTML5 doc type:
  • Auto Height and Auto Resize
  • Column Freezing and Absolute Scrolling mode
  • Classic Paging
    • Default mode
    • Slider mode
  • Client Binding
    • ADO Data Service
    • WCF Service
    • Paging
    • Virtual Group Paging
  • Pivot Charting
    • Core Layout Rendering
    • Auto Resize
    • Ribbon Bar
    • Drag and Drop
  • Smart Batch Update
    • Core Batch Update Optimization
    • Review Changes Dialog
  • Hierarchical Layout
    • Child Table Rendering
    • TreeLines Rendering
  • Columnset Layout
  • Self-referencing Layout
  • Preview Row Layout
  • Load-on-demand in Preview Row
  • Built-in Calendar Editor
  • Context Menu
  • Custom Editor
    • Numeric UpDown
    • Slider Bar
    • Calculator
    • Vista Calendar
  • Interactivity:
    • Column Sorting
    • Column Filtering
    • Column Drag-drop, Moving and Resizing
    • Checked Rows

    • Expand Child Rows
    • Keyboard Navigation

To learn how to enable HTML5 rendering mode in WebGrid, see How-to: Enable HTML5 Rendering Mode.

• CSS3 support.
  
  When the WebGrid control is hosted in pages that use HTML5 doc type, it will automatically enable CSS3 to deliver better visual effects and consistent results across all modern browsers. The CSS3 adoption also increases performance in overall due to the reduced HTML output. This is possible because certain markups are no longer required in the rendering which makes the WebGrid output even more compact, for instances, the drop shadow in the Batch Update Review Dialog now uses CSS3's drop shadow instead of rendering PNG images.

WebGrid 8 continues to support backward compatibility with HTML4 and XHTML doc type. This means that you can upgrade your existing projects to WebGrid 8 without any additional efforts.

For more information about WebGrid's features, see WebGrid Features Overview.

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