Using jqGrid with asp.net web forms (free version)

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Priyank Patel picture Priyank Patel · May 21, 2012 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I am using Asp.net Web Forms , earlier I used this jqGrid sample which is not free , this I realized later , now that the confusion was cleared , I will now have to use jqGrid open source thing as I wont opt for commercial one , Can anyone point me to links for getting started with jqGrid and Asp.Net Web Forms , it would be really great if someone gives an example which will show free columns from a sample table in jqGrid , I found some articles online , but couldnot understand how it works. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

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Oleg picture Oleg · May 21, 2012

I think that working Visual Studio demo projects could help you mostly.

The demo from the answer uses ASHX handler in ASP.NET Web Form application. It uses only free open source package jqGrid which consist from JavaScript code only. The latest version of the source code you can download from github.

Another demo from the answer uses ASHX handler in ASP.NET Web Form application too. It shows how to implement editing of the grid.

I think having both of the demo project you can create application which uses full set of jqGrid features. Moreover the usage of ASHX handler in ASP.NET Web Form define only the way how the client communicate with the server. So you can use any technology which you prefer for the Database access. So You can use either Entity Framework or LINQ to SQL or even more old, but in many cases the best from the performance point of view SqlCommand with SqlDataReader.

It's important to understand that you can get the most part from the code examples created for another technology like ASP.NET MVC (see the example, another one, this one or this one). So you can implement Autocomplete, Export to Excel etc features in the ASHX handler in ASP.NET Web Form solution.

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