Comments on: Choosing a WPF Data Grid Control http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/2007/12/choosing-a-wpf-data-grid-control/ Visual Studio, .NET, BizTalk Server, SQL Server and more... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Alex http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/2007/12/choosing-a-wpf-data-grid-control/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Alex Tue, 19 May 2009 04:47:06 +0000 http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/?p=107#comment-5 I am actually quite familiar with Infragistics, and their WPF stuff is all developed in eastern Europe, which is probably the reason no one responds. That's the price of outsourcing. I am actually quite familiar with Infragistics, and their WPF stuff is all developed in eastern Europe, which is probably the reason no one responds. That’s the price of outsourcing.

]]> By: Odi Kosmatos http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/2007/12/choosing-a-wpf-data-grid-control/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Odi Kosmatos Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:30:55 +0000 http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/?p=107#comment-136 >>One thing to note if you are used to Windows Forms data grids: Xceed DataGrid for WPF does not support the IDataErrorInfo interface for bound object validation and automatic error display. They have that in their suggestions list but with no timeline. That's recently changed. We're working on that right now, and it is scheduled for the v2.1 release this summer. >>Pankaj wrote: Keep in mind that all of the WPF grid controls out there today are quite immatureall things considered, so none of them are comparable to the feature sets available for Windows Forms grid controls. Since you wrote that comment, I think that's not quite so true anymore. Xceed DataGrid for WPF now has had 5 major version updates, another 5-6 minor releases, and as of v2.0, is, for most purposes, at feature-parity with many Windows Forms grids (such as Xceed's own). The product is approaching 1.5 years on the market, as well. v2.1 coming out this summer will have equal (and in some ways surpass) the best of the Windows Forms grids. But if you take the market in general, you're right, though. A few vendors have not even released their WPF Grids yet, which means that when they do, even if they have lots of features and good performance, they will be too green to rely on when compared to Xceed's. A WPF DataGrid is a very complex control. Xceed has (at the moment) about 15 months worth of field use by customers (lots!), corrections, improvements, and bug fixes. The forums have nearly 5000 posts, that's 5 times more than the nearest competitor, there's a lot of momentum. Thanks to Thomas for the great comment on the grid! >>One thing to note if you are used to Windows Forms data grids: Xceed DataGrid for WPF does not support the IDataErrorInfo interface for bound object validation and automatic error display. They have that in their suggestions list but with no timeline.

That’s recently changed. We’re working on that right now, and it is scheduled for the v2.1 release this summer.

>>Pankaj wrote: Keep in mind that all of the WPF grid controls out there today are quite immatureall things considered, so none of them are comparable to the feature sets available for Windows Forms grid controls.

Since you wrote that comment, I think that’s not quite so true anymore. Xceed DataGrid for WPF now has had 5 major version updates, another 5-6 minor releases, and as of v2.0, is, for most purposes, at feature-parity with many Windows Forms grids (such as Xceed’s own). The product is approaching 1.5 years on the market, as well. v2.1 coming out this summer will have equal (and in some ways surpass) the best of the Windows Forms grids.

But if you take the market in general, you’re right, though. A few vendors have not even released their WPF Grids yet, which means that when they do, even if they have lots of features and good performance, they will be too green to rely on when compared to Xceed’s. A WPF DataGrid is a very complex control. Xceed has (at the moment) about 15 months worth of field use by customers (lots!), corrections, improvements, and bug fixes. The forums have nearly 5000 posts, that’s 5 times more than the nearest competitor, there’s a lot of momentum.

Thanks to Thomas for the great comment on the grid!

]]> By: Thomas http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/2007/12/choosing-a-wpf-data-grid-control/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Thomas Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:38:36 +0000 http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/?p=107#comment-135 Hi Pankaj, no, I do not believe that is true. In the application in which I used Xceed Grid for WPF, the grid was set up to allow selection and navigation cell by cell and by entire row, just like Excel. If you are referring only to whether it has the feature of selecting a random assortment of individual cells, as in Excel, I am not sure that it can do that today. You should post a question about that in Xceed's WPF forum or contact them. Keep in mind that all of the WPF grid controls out there today are quite immature, all things considered, so none of them are comparable to the feature sets available for Windows Forms grid controls. That's the price we pay today to use WPF. Xceed's WPF grid just happens to work very well overall and have a more robust feature set compared to other WPF grid offerings today. Thanks for reading! -- Tom Hi Pankaj, no, I do not believe that is true. In the application in which I used Xceed Grid for WPF, the grid was set up to allow selection and navigation cell by cell and by entire row, just like Excel. If you are referring only to whether it has the feature of selecting a random assortment of individual cells, as in Excel, I am not sure that it can do that today. You should post a question about that in Xceed’s WPF forum or contact them.

Keep in mind that all of the WPF grid controls out there today are quite immature, all things considered, so none of them are comparable to the feature sets available for Windows Forms grid controls. That’s the price we pay today to use WPF. Xceed’s WPF grid just happens to work very well overall and have a more robust feature set compared to other WPF grid offerings today.

Thanks for reading! — Tom

]]> By: Pankaj http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/2007/12/choosing-a-wpf-data-grid-control/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Pankaj Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:17:23 +0000 http://www.tfabraham.com/blog/?p=107#comment-134 We are evaluating grid controls for an engineering application. We are using WPF for GUI. I started looking at the Xceed grid today. It seems we cannot select multiple cells like we do in Excel. It seems to select a row. Ourt users are used to using grid controls like a spreadsheet control. Is it true that the Xceed grid control is more suited for Database type of applications rather than something that requires spreadsheet-like functionality? Thanks We are evaluating grid controls for an engineering application. We are using WPF for GUI. I started looking at the Xceed grid today. It seems we cannot select multiple cells like we do in Excel. It seems to select a row. Ourt users are used to using grid controls like a spreadsheet control.

Is it true that the Xceed grid control is more suited for Database type of applications rather than something that requires spreadsheet-like functionality?

Thanks

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