jqGrid for ASP.NET is a server-side component built on top of the most popular jQuery plugin - jqGrid. It is produced and supported by the same company behind the original jqGrid component, Trirand.

The major features include::

• Blazing speed - only the minimal data required is sent from server to client using JSON.
  
• Intelligent datasource handling - 1,000,000 rows with paging, filtering & searching with 0 lines of code and fast response? We do that.
  
• Minimal ViewState usage - datasource is not maintained in ViewState.
  
• Minimal HTML size - jqGrid uses client-side rendering, which means no hundreds of kilobytes of nested <tables> in HTML
  
• jQuery based client-side - familiar and powerful API based on jQuery
  
• Feature complete - any feature you might need, including hierarchy, sorting, filtering, paging, etc
  
• ThemeRoller support - theming is based on ThemeRoller. A set ot 25 themes by professional designers is available, including great free theme authoring tool.