Datagrids are very flexible controls. They often contain a lot of information and provide tools to visually organize this information and sift through it. Before WPF/Silverlight, you could not create a data template for items in a listbox or other data controls. It was not feasible to attempt to present tabular data (e.g., name, age, description, ...

Xceed has been working for over 1.5 years and has put over 18000 person-hours of work on one single new Silverlight control, so that with only a couple of lines of code, you can achieve some magic. A bit of history. At Xceed, we've been creating components and class libraries for Windows developers for 16 years. Our first datagrid control ...