What data type is most commonly used with the Ignite grids? Most samples and forum posts seem to point toward JSON, but have any of you successfully implemented the grids using XML? ADO? If so, any advice on how to make it work, how to avoid any problems, etc.?
No, this helps. Thank you.
Since Ignite UI is based on HTML and JS, it make sense to use JSON. However, it does support XML as well. You can use ADO(.NET) to retrieve objects and bind directly to the grid's data source using the MVC Helper. Internally since it is of type IEnumerable or IEnumerable<T>, their helper will automatically serialize that into JSON for you.
Do you have any specific examples that we can help you with?