Control raises Silverlight efficiency

The DevExpress Grid for Silverlight, AgDataGrid, has been engineered to fully exploit the power and flexibility of Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, and will ship with advanced data visualisation and data shaping features from column grouping and sorting, to summary calculations against multiple columns.

Its Smart UI Element Management implements a smart loading and re-organisation of the grid’s inner UI elements to provide smaller control load times and faster data operations, and its measurement routines mean you don’t have to think in terms of pixels – which you do with the standard Silverlight grid.

Just like other advanced controls for older platforms, you simply specify styles and fonts and all element sizes are automatically modified. Though the standard Microsoft Silverlight grid control’s architecture doesn’t support them, AgDataGrid fully supports animations for group row expansion, preview row display and other operations, and has been designed for future performance enhancements – Silverlight is all about client-side technology, but if client/server interaction is implemented in future versions, it is ready to delegate data processing to the server side and thus boost application performance. The AgDataGrid Suite Community Preview will be available for free with full source code.