What is Flexigrid ASP.NET
Based on the excellent plug-in for jQuery, Flexigrid ASP.NET is a server control which displays grid-like data in a friendly way.
Flexigrid-ASP.NET offers you a seamless integration between ASP.NET and the jQuery Flexigrid plug-in. See it in action.
Why pay for it?
You can integrate flexigrid into your ASP.NET application without having to pay for this library, just by using the javascript plug-in found here.
However, with the Flexigrid ASP.NET control you'll get more:
- a lot easier to learn and use than the actual jQuery plug-in
- because it comes with extensive documentation and support, it will save you hours, if not days, of work
- if you find yourself in trouble, you can find an answer in minutes, using the online documentation
- you'll get email help with any flexigrid related problem, with an average response time of less than an hour
- it's made by an ASP.NET programmer, by following all ASP.NET patterns & practises
Features
All standard features that come with the flexigrid jQuery widget:
- Columns can be resized/filtered/ordered
- Flexigrid can resized
- Integrated support for sorting data on the client
- Loads data using ajax, which makes your pages load a lot faster
- Built-in paging support
- Show/hide columns, from code or from UI
- Toolbar support
Besides that, Flexigrid ASP.NET also provides you with:
- Way better alternative to the standard ASP.NET GridView
- 4 beautiful themes, out of the box. Of course, you can create your own theme.
- Flexible datasource: http handler, aspx page, GridView or a simple table element
- Support for update panel: the control will work both in an update panel and outside of it
- Support for column templates: you can customize the content of each data cell
- Postback persistence: selection/page are persisted across page postbacks
- Integrated buttons in grid with both client and server side support
- Custom row rendering. Define your own HTML structure of the cell.
- GridView as datasource. If you preffer a better way of presenting you data, you can attach the Flexigrid ASP.NET control to a GridView on your page.
- Send specific data to the server. You have the option to add extra variables, outside of the control, to the server in order to get the grid's data. For example, you can put some extra filtering options.
.NET Framework version

The Flexigrid ASP-NET control is developed using .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, but also works with .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.
Browser support
Flexigrid-ASP.NET is known to work on the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 6 or higher
- Mozilla Firefox 2.x or higher
- Google Chrome 1 or higher
- Safari 3.x or higher
However, Flexigrid ASP.NET might also work on other browsers that aren't listed here.