First look at the official JqGrid ASP.Net Web Forms control here http://www.trirand.net/jqgrid.aspx
Includes support for Linq and object data sources.
Get JqGrid here: http://www.trirand.com/blog/
So far I’ve seen two implementations of ASP.Net wrapper on JqGrid, one involves a httphandler and the other involves using a web service. Both add extra work onto the gridview/datasource pattern.
Instead I had the JqGrid use a Callback Event Reference (Page.ClientScript.GetCallbackEventReference()) with async (a parameter) set to true, this allowed me to [...]
I had a problem where I wanted to use the intellisense version of JQuery when I am writing the code, the normal version when I debug it and the minified when it actually hits production.
I also wanted all this done on my master page so the path to the js file had to be relative [...]