nowadays MVC 3 now has a webGrid out of the box. I know this question is from a while ago, but I ended up on it when looking for something about webGrid. So I thought it should have an answer mentioning the new webGrid. Here are a few good posts on how to use it: … Read more
Only immediate properties of an instance can be displayed in a BoundField column. One must instead use DataBinder.Eval in an itemtemplate to access the nested property instead of assigning it to a boundfield. Example: <asp:TemplateField> <itemtemplate> <p><%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, “NestedClass.Name”)%></p> </itemtemplate> </asp:TemplateField> Alternatively, you can create a custom class which inherits BoundField and overrides GetValue to use … Read more