MVCGrid.Net

A server-side data grid for ASP.NET with Bootstrap styling: AJAX paging, sorting, filtering, column visibility, CSV export, back-button/state support, and graceful degradation. Easily configurable — you tell it how to fetch your data and it handles all the AJAX.

This is a maintained fork of the original MVCGrid.Net by bigjoe714, restructured into a portable core plus per-host adapters so the same grid works on classic ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core — and even in the browser via .NET WebAssembly.

Live demo: https://filipe-silva.github.io/MVCGrid.Net — the docs site is the demo: every sample grid runs the real engine entirely client-side (a WebAssembly host feeds the unchanged MVCGrid.js), no server involved.

Packages

Package	Target	Use it when
MVCGrid	netstandard2.0	The portable, System.Web-free core. Pulled in automatically by an adapter; reference directly only to build your own host adapter.
MVCGrid.MvcWeb	net48	Hosting in classic ASP.NET MVC 3/4/5.
MVCGrid.AspNetCore	net8.0	Hosting in ASP.NET Core MVC (RenderingEngine mode).
MVCGrid.Wasm	netstandard2.0	Running the grid in the browser via .NET WebAssembly — no System.Web, no ASP.NET Core, no server at all. WasmGridRenderer renders the grid, answers the client script's AJAX requests and exports in-process. Powers the live demo site.

Features

• Uses your existing model objects
• Server-side sorting, paging and filtering over AJAX
• Updates the query string so grid state survives back-button navigation
• Column visibility and per-grid query-string prefixes (multiple grids per page)
• Built-in CSV/export via pluggable rendering engines
• Graceful degradation on older browsers

Quick start

Classic ASP.NET MVC (MVCGrid.MvcWeb)

1. Register the HTTP handler in Web.config:

   <add name="MVCGridHandler" verb="*" path="MVCGridHandler.axd"
        type="MVCGrid.Web.MVCGridHandler, MVCGrid.MvcWeb" />

2. Include the script after jQuery: <script src="~/MVCGridHandler.axd/script.js"></script>
3. Register your grids at Application_Start.
4. Render: @Html.MVCGrid("GridName").

ASP.NET Core (MVCGrid.AspNetCore)

builder.Services.AddMVCGrid(o => { o.HandlerPath = "/mvcgrid"; });
// ... register grids into MVCGridDefinitionTable at startup ...
app.MapMVCGrid();

In _Layout, after jQuery: <script src="/mvcgrid/script.js"></script>, then @Html.MVCGrid("GridName") (@using MVCGrid.AspNetCore).

Browser / WebAssembly (MVCGrid.Wasm)

In a .NET WebAssembly browser app — no server at all:

// ... register grids into MVCGridDefinitionTable at startup ...
var renderer = new WasmGridRenderer(new WasmGridOptions { HandlerPath = "mvcgrid" });

string pageHtml = renderer.GetBasePageHtml("GridName", currentUrl); // the @Html.MVCGrid equivalent
string fragment = renderer.RenderData(requestUrl);   // answers MVCGrid.js's AJAX request in-process
string script   = renderer.GetClientScript();        // the unchanged MVCGrid.js, ready to inject

Answer the client script's one AJAX call from a jQuery ajaxTransport shim and turn exports into Blob downloads — the live demo site (tst/MVCGrid.Example.Wasm) is the reference implementation.

Documentation

Docs and live samples: https://filipe-silva.github.io/MVCGrid.Net — built from the MVCGrid.Example.Wasm app in this repo and deployed to GitHub Pages; the interactive demos there run in-browser via WebAssembly. The same demo catalog also ships as runnable classic MVC and ASP.NET Core example apps under tst/.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Original work © 2015 bigjoe714; fork © filipe-silva.