ASP.NET has a large range of options for producing Web grids.
Web grids are tables, with rows and columns.
Unlike regular tables they also have a wired up with JavaScript
This is useful because it means that you can interact with the data it contains.
This means you can edit the data in single column and row position, in other words you can change the data within the web grid
However the first task is to understand how to build a web grid and populate it with data.
Quite often data is stored in either spreadsheet, word document or a database.
To be able to create a web grid it is essential to the data within the spreadsheet or word document is formatted
The data within a database is always formatted so the task is a little easier with a database.
Each of these three data sources must store data in some form of table, and we will need to know the name of each of these columns, also let us assume only a few hundred lines or rows.
ASP.NET uses is a technology called ADO.NET. To connect To any data source you need to present in your web grid
Web grid of sometimes called datagrids or gridviews depending on the version of asp.net you may be using, essentially they are the same thing.
So mapping and connecting to the data source of the two key concepts need to be the grasped.
Expose and match, search and find