Tech Specs and Comparisons
| Feature | Telerik RadGridView for Silverlight | Microsoft DataGrid |
| Bind to Arrays collection | OK | OK |
| Bind to Lists collection | OK | OK |
| Bind to Observable collection | OK | OK |
| Property Paths | OK | OK |
| Row details | OK | OK |
| Master details form | OK | OK |
| Property Hierarchy | OK | --- |
| Custom Hierarchy | OK | --- |
| Self referance Hierarchy | OK | --- |
| Card view | --- | --- |
| Grouping in hierarchy | OK | --- |
| Grouping | OK | OK |
| Basic filtering (by one value) | OK | OK |
| Excel-like filtering | OK | OK |
| Extensible filtering UI | OK | --- |
| Custom filtering with two conditions | OK | --- |
| Defered scrolling with preview | OK | OK* |
| Scrolling on mouse wheel | OK | OK |
| Asynchronous data binding | OK | --- |
| Column starable column widths (* column width) | OK | OK |
| Column Groups | OK | --- |
| Field/Column chooser | OK** | --- |
| Persistence framework | OK** | --- |
| Server page sorting | OK | OK |
| Sort None | OK | OK*** |
| Server page filtering | OK | OK |
| Built-in Filter row | OK | --- |
| Unbound columns support | OK | OK |
| Sort by columns | OK | OK |
| Sort by several columns | OK | OK |
| Sort Ascending/Descending | OK | OK |
| Printing capabilities | OK** | --- |
| Print preview | --- | --- |
| Export to Excel | OK | --- |
| Export to Word | OK | --- |
| Export to CSV | OK | --- |
| Grid footer row | OK | --- |
| Grid summary row with aggregates | OK | --- |
| Group summary row with aggregates | OK | --- |
| Group Footer row | OK | --- |
| Group row aggregates | OK | --- |
| Vertical virtualization | OK | OK |
| Horizontal virtualization | OK | OK |
| Horizontal Recycling Mode | OK | --- |
| Vertical Recycling Mode | OK | OK |
| Real-time scrolling | OK | OK |
| Physical scrolling | OK | OK |
| Paging | OK | OK |
| Column width mode - Auto | OK | OK |
| Frozen (Fixed) columns | OK | OK |
| Immediate Resizing column widths | OK | OK |
| UI automaion/QTP support | OK | OK |
| Number of themes | 11 | 11 |
| In-place editing and validation | OK | OK |
| Built-in data validation | OK | --- |
| Data Validation events for custom validation | OK | OK |
| Multiple row selection | OK | OK |
| Keyboard navigation with "Tab"/"Shift+Tab" | OK | OK |
| Keyboard navigation with Arrows | OK | OK |
| Built-in CheckBox column | OK | OK |
| Built-in TextBox column | OK | OK |
| Built-in Boolean column | OK | OK |
| Built-in Date column | OK | OK |
| Built-in Hyperlink column | OK | OK |
| Built-in Image column | OK | --- |
| Built-in MaskedTextBox column | OK | --- |
| Built-in ComboBox column | OK | OK |
| Data Formatting | OK | --- |
| Context menu | OK** | --- |
| Select multiple cells | OK | OK |
| Multiple column selection | --- | --- |
MS Grid does not have preview
** We have it as example
*** MS Grid can do it with code