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Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC Grid Control

27 May 20267 minutes to read

This section briefly explains about how to include ASP.NET MVC Grid control in your ASP.NET MVC application using Visual Studio.

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Prerequisites

System requirements for ASP.NET MVC controls

Create ASP.NET MVC application with HTML helper

Install ASP.NET MVC package in the application

To add ASP.NET MVC controls in the application, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio (Tools → NuGet Package Manager → Manage NuGet Packages for Solution), search for Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 and then install it.

Install-Package Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 -Version 33.2.3

NOTE

Syncfusion® ASP.NET MVC controls are available in nuget.org. Refer to NuGet packages topic to learn more about installing NuGet packages in various OS environments. The Syncfusion.EJ2.MVC5 NuGet package has dependencies, Newtonsoft.Json for JSON serialization and Syncfusion.Licensing for validating Syncfusion® license key.

Add namespace

Add Syncfusion.EJ2 namespace reference in Web.config under Views folder.

<namespaces>
    <add namespace="Syncfusion.EJ2"/>
</namespaces>

Add stylesheet and script resources

Here, the theme and script is referred using CDN inside the <head> of ~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows,

<head>
    ...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls styles -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/33.2.3/fluent2.css" />
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC controls scripts -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/33.2.3/dist/ej2.min.js"></script>
</head>

NOTE

Checkout the Themes topic to learn different ways (CDN, NPM package, and CRG) to refer styles in ASP.NET MVC application, and to have the expected appearance for Syncfusion® ASP.NET MVC controls. Checkout the Adding Script Reference topic to learn different approaches for adding script references in your ASP.NET MVC application.

Register Syncfusion® script manager

Also, register the script manager EJS().ScriptManager() at the end of <body> in the ~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml file as follows.

<body>
...
    <!-- Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Script Manager -->
    @Html.EJS().ScriptManager()
</body>

Add ASP.NET MVC Grid control

Now, add the Syncfusion® ASP.NET MVC Grid control in ~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml page.

@Html.EJS().Grid("Grid").DataSource((IEnumerable<object>)ViewBag.DataSource).Columns(col =>
   {
       col.Field("OrderID").HeaderText("Order ID").Width("120").TextAlign(Syncfusion.EJ2.Grids.TextAlign.Right).Add();
       col.Field("CustomerID").HeaderText("Customer Name").Width("150").Add();
       col.Field("OrderDate").HeaderText("Order Date").Width("130").TextAlign(Syncfusion.EJ2.Grids.TextAlign.Right).Format("yMd").Add();
       col.Field("Freight").HeaderText("Freight").Width("100").TextAlign(Syncfusion.EJ2.Grids.TextAlign.Right).Format("C2").Add();
       col.Field("ShipCountry").HeaderText("Ship Country").Width("120").Add();
   }).Render()
public class HomeController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        var Order = OrdersDetails.GetAllRecords();
        ViewBag.DataSource = Order;
        return View();
    }

    public class OrdersDetails
    {
        public static List<OrdersDetails> order = new List<OrdersDetails>();
        public OrdersDetails()
        {

        }
        public OrdersDetails(int OrderID, string CustomerId, DateTime OrderDate, string ShipCountry, double Freight)
        {
            this.OrderID = OrderID;
            this.CustomerID = CustomerId;
            this.OrderDate = OrderDate;
            this.ShipCountry = ShipCountry;
            this.Freight = Freight;
        }
        public static List<OrdersDetails> GetAllRecords()
        {
            if (order.Count() == 0)
            {
                order.Add(new OrdersDetails(10248, "Ana Trujillo", new DateTime(2025, 1, 12), "France", 32.38));
                order.Add(new OrdersDetails(10249, "Martin Sommer", new DateTime(2025, 1, 15), "Germany", 11.61));
                order.Add(new OrdersDetails(10250, "Thomas Hardy", new DateTime(2025, 2, 5), "Brazil", 65.83));
                order.Add(new OrdersDetails(10251, "Elizabeth Lincoln", new DateTime(2025, 2, 18), "France", 41.34));
                order.Add(new OrdersDetails(10252, "Victoria Ashworth", new DateTime(2025, 3, 10), "Belgium", 51.30));
                order.Add(new OrdersDetails(10253, "Martine Rance", new DateTime(2025, 3, 22), "Brazil", 58.17));
            }
            return order;
        }
        public int? OrderID { get; set; }
        public string CustomerID { get; set; }
        public DateTime? OrderDate { get; set; }
        public string ShipCountry { get; set; }
        public double? Freight { get; set; }
    }
}

Press Ctrl+F5 (Windows) or ⌘+F5 (macOS) to run the app. Then, the Syncfusion® ASP.NET MVC Grid control will be rendered in the default web browser.

The output looks like below

ASP.NET MVC Grid with Column Values

See also