Compare all of the features offered by TrueDBGrid, FlexGrid, and MS DataGridView.

Data Binding

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Binding Data Sources	✓	✓	✓
Binding Data Sources with hierarchical data relations	✓	With limitations
Unbound data storage and manipulations	✓	✓	✓

Data Presentation

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Hierarchical Styles	✓	With limitations
TreeView-like Styles	✓	✓
MultiLine Data View	✓
Grouping	✓	✓
Built-in Drag And Drop Grouping	✓	✓
Horizontal and Vertical Interactive Splits	✓
Child grids within master grid support	✓	✓
Drop-Down Objects Support	✓	✓
Drop-Down Multicolumn Object support	✓	✓
Drop-Down Multicolumn Bindable and Sortable Object support	✓

Data Exchange

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Export Data (Delimited Text, XLS and XLSX)	✓	✓
Export Data in other formats (PDF, HTML, RTF, JPG and other)	✓
Load data from Excel files	✓	✓
Enhanced Printing data from grid and Print Preview support	✓	✓

Cells Manipulations

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
In-Cell Objects	✓	✓	✓
Enhanced Cell Editing with Custom Editors	✓	✓
Merging Cells and Rows	✓	✓
Customize Cells Merging		✓
Drag And Drop Columns and rows	✓	✓
Automatic Cell Sizing	✓	✓	✓
Fixed, Non-scrolling Columns	✓	✓	✓
Excel-style Cell Selection	✓	✓
Customize each Cell Rendering		✓
Zooming Cells	✓	✓
Run-Time CellTips	✓	✓

Layout and Styling

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Visual Styles Support	✓ (.NET Framework support only)	✓	✓
Dynamic Support of Decoration Themes	✓	✓
Office 2007 and 2010 Styling	✓ (.NET Framework support only)	✓
Alternating Row Colors	✓	✓	✓
Customizable Cell Border Style	✓	✓
Add Special Drawing Effects	✓	✓
Data-Sensitive Display	✓

Input and Navigation

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Input Masking	✓	✓	✓
Simplify Data Input	✓	✓
Automatic Data Translation	✓
Spell Checking support	✓	✓
Customizable Keyboard Navigation and keys behavior	✓	✓
Right-To-Left navigation	✓	✓	✓
Touch Support	✓	✓	✓
Clipboard support	✓	✓	✓
Rich Scrolling Capabilities	✓	✓

Data Manipulations

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Sorting	✓	✓	✓
Built-in Data Filtering	✓	✓
Extended and Conditional Filtering	✓	✓
Customizable filter form		✓
Additional Filter Bar row	✓
Multilanguage Filtering	✓	✓
Range Aggregates	✓	✓

Localization

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Right-To-Left support	✓	✓	✓
.Net localization support	✓	✓	✓
Regional settings support	✓	✓	✓

Other Features

Features	TrueDBGrid	FlexGrid	MS DataGridView
Optimize performance for displaying large amount of data in bound and unbound mode	✓	✓
Just-In-Time Data Loading	✓	✓	✓
Design-time extended support	✓	✓