The AJAX grid is capable of displaying an always visible filter row in the header (see http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/programming/filteringtemplatecolumns/defaultcs.aspx for an example).

Is there any setting that would make the MVC grid behave the same (rather than the drop-downs in the header)?

Was there ever a reply to this? This should be a feature request.