Datagrid vs Gridview [duplicate]

Answer 1

The GridView control is the successor to the DataGrid control. Like the DataGrid control, the GridView control was designed to display data in an HTML table. When bound to a data source, the DataGrid and GridView controls each display a row from a DataSource as a row in an output table.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/05yye6k9.aspx

Answer 2

Basically if you use GridView you have a lot of options which is useful and you don't have to write code for that functions.

Answer 3

DataGrid has been around since .NET 1.1 while GridView was introduced in .NET 2.0. So basically GridView is the successor of DataGrid. Here's a nice article on MSDN comparing both.

Both the DataGrid and GridView controls are derived from the WebControl class. Although it has a similar object model to that of the DataGrid control, the GridView control also has a number of new features and advantages over the DataGrid control, which include: Richer design-time capabilities. Improved data source binding capabilities. Automatic handling of sorting, paging, updates, and deletes. Additional column types and design-time column operations. A Customized pager user interface (UI) with the PagerTemplate property. Differences between the GridView control and the DataGrid control include: Different custom-paging support. Different event models.