I want to impliment a find/find next for a RadGrid.  The find criteria would either be entered in a dialog box (like excel) or in a bar at the top of the grid (similar to Internet Explorer). 
Find would scroll goto and highlight the cell that matches the find criteria (not filter the data based on the find criteria).

Further I am looking for a solution that would allow the user to specify the column name in a drop down, the operator (=, >, contains, etc.) in a drop down, and then the value where the value field takes into account the data type of the column selected.

Before we code a custom solution for this I was wondering if one already exists.

Hello,

Please check this example - may help you in your case. You can find more info about our SDK here. 

Kind regards,
Vlad
the Telerik team