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>>>I could write the app in binary I suppose, but somehow I got used to having a useful programming environment over the years. This sounds like as much fun as making a useful grid in MVC 2.0 (I see they have something *NEW* in MVC 3.0 *beta* that is supposed to be a grid - can you imagine?).
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>>Just use something like jqGrid (which is free) http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html and drive the grid off of AJAX callbacks and JSON formatted data.
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>There are ways to add a third party grid to MVC (with enough work and searching). Somehow Microsoft will try to convince developers that that is a good thing rather than having built-in controls that provide the capability.
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>Personally, as I watch Microsoft take giant strides backwards in developer productivity my main hope is that some other company decides to build a development suite that is worthwhile jumping to.

Borland? Oh wait....