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I have a serious problem with the way AJAX binding of Telerik's MVC Grid works. I can't reuse any server-side code because it's trying to squish everything into a JSON response and rebuild the table from scratch, client-side.
This means formatting from DataAnnotations is lost, column templates that render patial views can't be used, circular references from Entity framework require special handling and so on and so on.
All of this can be avoided if the resulting HTML is generated server-side and then simply inserted in place of the old element (say, jQuery.load() the <table>). Is there a way to achieve this with Telerik's grid?
This means formatting from DataAnnotations is lost, column templates that render patial views can't be used, circular references from Entity framework require special handling and so on and so on.
All of this can be avoided if the resulting HTML is generated server-side and then simply inserted in place of the old element (say, jQuery.load() the <table>). Is there a way to achieve this with Telerik's grid?