This topic discusses the difference between the RadGrid and the MasterTableView objects of Telerik RadGrid.
The instances of RadGrid and MasterTableView are almost identical but there is one major distinction between them. Through the properties of the grid you can assign settings for the MasterTableView/GridTableViews/DetailTables which will be applied as default for all tables present in the grid. You can override these default settings by specifying new definitions for the separate tables in the grid through their individual properties. In comparison with that, the settings of the MasterTableView will not be inherited for the inner tables and the explicit declaration of their own customization logic is mandatory.
For example, if you set blue border for the RadGrid object, the MasterTableView/GridTableViews/DetailTables will also have blue border (if you do not override it), while if you set blue border for the MasterTableView, this will not make the GridTableViews/DetailTables borders blue unless you explicitly define that for them.
The example on the left shows how to set all tables in Telerik RadGrid to use paging with PageSize="2".
The example on the right shows how the 3rd level table overrides the global setting and does not use paging.