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Available Grid Controls for ASP.NET MVC 5

This article is intended to answer the question: "In ASP.NET MVC 5 I'm trying to create a project. Is there a control, plug-in, helper, etc. to create a grid (better if is using AJAX) ? Which of the following is better for Visual Studio 2013?"

These are some of the known grid display solutions for ASP.NET MVC 5:

  • [ASP.NET MVC Flexgrid][1] - Has nice column layout method
  • [Code based ASP.NET MVC GridView][2] - simple, small, clean
  • [MVC Contrib][3] - grid from CodePlex
  • [jQueryGrid][4] - jQuery grid
  • [Ingrid][5] - jQuery data grid
  • [Telerik MVC][6] - jQuery-based grid that is GPL v2 licensed, commercial version also available
  • [MVC Controls Toolkit][7] - Client Site Based Grid
  • [ASP.net MVC Awesome Ajax List][8] - a different, very flexible approach, can be used as a grid
  • [Syncfusion MVC Grid][9] - Commercial grid
  • [DataTables Table plug-in for jQuery][10] - Responsive, bootstrap enabled
  • Shield UI Grid - multi-purpose grid for ASP.NET MVC

  [1]: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/30588/ASP-NET-MVC-Flexigrid-sample

  [2]: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2008/06/04/Code-based-ASPNET-MVC-GridView.aspx

  [3]: http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/archive/2008/07/23/asp-net-mvc-grid-view-using-mvccontrib.aspx

  [4]: http://www.trirand.com/blog/?page%5Fid=6

  [5]: http://www.reconstrukt.com/ingrid/

  [6]: http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/

  [7]: http://mvccontrolstoolkit.codeplex.com/

  [8]: http://demo.aspnetawesome.com/Dinners

  [9]: http://mvc.syncfusion.com/sfmvcsamplebrowser/10.2.0.56/Grid_MVC/Samples/4.0/Razor

 [10]: https://www.datatables.net