Fast, Flexible and Full-Featured WPF Datagrid Control
Display up to a billion records with FlexGrid, a powerful, high-performance WPF datagrid control.
- Engineered for Flexibility - FlexGrid’s XAML-based architecture provides flexible MVVM data binding and easy style customization
- Designed for Usability - FlexGrid delivers features similar to Microsoft Excel, such as filtering and selection, so it will be intuitive for end-users
- Optimized for Performance - FlexGrid can handle large data sets in WPF with virtualization techniques that efficiently load resources and data on demand
Overview
A WPF datagrid is a user interface control for displaying, editing, and analyzing large data sets. FlexGrid is a WPF datagrid optimized for high-performance and flexibility, enabling .NET developers to customize every aspect of the control.
WPF Datagrid Highlights
The Most Flexible WPF DataGrid for Modern UI
Get a complete, modern WPF datagrid with FlexGrid, the industry’s most flexible cross-platform .NET datagrid. Every element of the grid’s design is customizable, from overall layout to individual cells. While most grids restrict you to per-column templates, FlexGrid lets you shape every cell uniquely with per-cell styling, templates, and logic. Go beyond traditional layouts and transpose your grid or transform it into a hierarchical TreeGrid using FlexGrid’s intuitive and flexible API.
Excel-Like Power Built for WPF Data Analysis
Deliver a spreadsheet experience users already know and love. FlexGrid for WPF mimics the Excel-style editing, analysis, and interaction patterns that boost user productivity without sacrificing WPF performance or MVVM architecture. Enable built-in Excel-like features, including filtering, sorting, grouping, freezing, cell merging, formatting, and clipboard operations. Provide your users with an intuitive and familiar interface to manage and analyze data, all within your WPF application.
Effortless Styling with Pure XAML
Customize your WPF DataGrid to match any design system without writing complex templates. FlexGrid for WPF seamlessly integrates with WPF’s styling model, allowing you to style every part of the grid through simple XAML resources, brushes, and themes. Achieve a polished, professional look with minimal effort, and adapt instantly to light or dark modes. With FlexGrid, creating a visually consistent and brand-aligned UI is as straightforward as styling any other WPF control.
See: ComponentOne WPF Easy Styling: An Alternative to Microsoft Blend
Optimized for Enterprise-Grade Desktop Performance
Experience high-speed rendering and smooth scrolling with FlexGrid’s lightweight WPF architecture. Designed for large-scale enterprise data, it supports on-demand data loading (Virtual Mode) via C1DataCollection, fetching only what’s visible to users for optimal responsiveness. Whether displaying thousands or millions of records, FlexGrid maintains high performance and minimal memory usage, ensuring your WPF applications stay fast, fluid, and future-ready.
.NET Datagrid Supported Platforms
WinForms Datagrid
- Use the Search Panel control to search the data displayed in the grid
- Quickly group and aggregate the grid using the Subtotal method
- Rich design-time support with Smart Tags for quick configuration of column, styles, and editors
- Integrate Sparklines into your grids
WPF Datagrid
- Designed with UI virtualization and cell recycling for optimal performance
- Innovative, internal XAML styling means you can customize the brushes without having to customize control templates
- Columns can be defined and bound to directly in XAML following MVVM design practices
- Extensive filtering features for every scenario
WinUI Datagrid
- Star-sizing for columns supports dynamic column widths
- On-demand loading for optimal performance
- Inspired by modern, fluent design patterns
- Same exact API as WPF and Blazor for cross-platform scalability
ASP.NET MVC Datagrid
- Simultaneous collaboration with SignalR support and JSON data binding
- Includes scaffolders to get started quickly
- Full built-in globalization and accessibility to resize columns using the keyboard
- Get a Transposed and MultiLine datagrid with FlexGrid extensions
Blazor Datagrid
- Developed natively for optimal performance in Blazor Server and WebAssembly applications
- Advanced features for a new platform such as on-demand loading, custom cells, and built-in editor controls
- Responsive column layouts so the grid fits nicely on any sized device
Wijmo JavaScript Datagrid
- Small footprint (less than 150 KB) and no dependencies
- Framework-agnostic, and supports Angular, AngularJS, React, and Vue
- Written in TypeScript, with full Visual Studio IntelliSense
- Virtualize DOM
- Data bind millions of records
UWP Datagrid
- Data bind to anything that implements IEnumerable or bind directly to a list of objects in XAML
- Checklist mode enables you to make non-contiguous selections in FlexGrid
- Output your FlexGrid directly to any printer
- Visually optimized for Windows 10 apps
Xamarin & MAUI Datagrid
- Designed for mobile-first apps with column reordering by touch gestures
- Effortless cell selection and column resizing with touch-friendly drag adorners
- Inline cell editing or provide input forms
- Adaptive column layouts for any size device eliminates horizontal scrolling
ActiveX Datagrid
- VSFlexGrid includes full 64-bit support
- Choose from several binding formats: ADO/OLEDB, DAO, bind to 2-D or 3-D arrays, to other VSFlexGrid controls, or create your own data source classes
- Connect your grid to a Variant array or to a custom, self-developed data source
- Create hierarchical summaries of your data with the Subtotal method
.NET Datagrid Demos
Desktop Demo Explorer
All of our WinForms and WPF demos are included in a single downloadable desktop explorer. Explore every feature and showcase demos for FlexGrid.
FlexGrid ASP.NET MVC Demos
Explore every FlexGrid feature and showcase demos right in your browser. Configure key properties and see what our .NET datagrid can do for your ASP.NET MVC applications.
Blazor Server Explorer
Explore every FlexGrid key feature for Blazor including data binding, column reordering, data virtualization and more. A WebAssembly demo is also available.
Easy Licensing and Distribution
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Get started with FlexGrid by adding the C1.WPF.Grid NuGet package.
dotnet add package C1.WPF.Grid
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How to Update Using the C1ControlPanel
The same C1ControlPanel utility that is used to install ComponentOne controls can also be used to update the controls to a newer version.
Steps to Update using C1ControlPanel
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Download and launch the C1ControlPanel application
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Select the latest version and check the “Update” box
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Optionally, choose which .NET versions you need
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Click “Update Selected Controls” and accept the license agreement
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Updating is very easy if you’re referencing the ComponentOne control packages from nuget.org.
Steps to Update using NuGet
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Open the Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution… window in Visual Studio.
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On the Updates tab, select all ComponentOne libraries (search C1.*)
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Select the project and the latest (or desired) version
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Click Update or Install and accept the license agreement
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Why Choose WinForms UI Controls and .NET Data Components?
WinForms UI controls are reusable design elements that help developers implement a wide variety of features in their desktop apps in less time. ComponentOne provides a complete set of dynamic, flexible WinForms controls including data connectors, data engine, grids, charts, and more.
Why Choose ComponentOne for Your WinForms Applications?
The Industry's Best .NET Datagrid
FlexGrid continues to be the industry's fastest data grid—loading large data sets up to 10x faster than the competition.
Fun and Easy-To-Use Design
Enjoy building your UI swiftly thanks to our smart Visual Studio design-time integration.
Extensive and Flexible API
Get the features you need for today and tomorrow, with an ever-growing API that allows you to customize every control to your specifications.
Develop Desktop Apps With Style
Go beyond the standard desktop look-and-feel with 40+ built-in themes, or create your own with our Theme Designer.
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500+ VB and C# Samples
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Visual Studio 2022 and Windows 11 Support
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