Changing the DataSource or scrolling are slow.

Create a grid with more than 20 columns and add 5K rows for example. Maximize the form and try to scroll with mouse wheel. You will notice that the scrolling performance is worse compared to the normal state of the form with less visible visual elements.

Workaround: this.radGridView1.EnableFastScrolling = true; and use the scrollbar's thumb

Second workaround: use paging:  https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/winforms/gridview/paging/overview Thus, you will display as many rows as possible to display on the screen per page. Instead of scrolling, you will navigate through pages.

To reproduce:

1.Populate RadGridView with data and enable Excel-like filtering.
2.Click on a column filter icon and type in the Search textbox so more than two results appear. Then, click OK
2.The grid returns correct result.
3. Click on the previous column filter icon and navigate to Available Filters -> Contains
4. Evaluate the initial pop up dialog. Its conditions should be "Contains" and "Contains". Actually, it shows "Equals" and "Equals" according to the available filter.

Workaround:By using the CreateCompositeFilterDialog event you can replace the default CompositeFilterForm with your custom one where you can  load the selected filter operators.

To reproduce: use the following code snippet and have a look at the attached gif file.
Steps:
1.Populate RadGridView with data and enable Excel-like filtering.
2.Click on a column filter icon and type in the Search textbox so more than two results appear. Then, click OK
2.The grid returns correct result.
3. Click on the previous column filter icon and navigate to Available Filters -> Contains
4. Evaluate the initial pop up dialog. You will notice that the 3rd filter descriptor is not displayed in the form.
5. Then, click OK
6. A message that says: "The composite filter descriptor is not valid".
7. Change the latter condition to "No filter" and click OK
8. The grid returns correct result.

CompositeFilterForm should be improved on a way to display all applied filters,not only two of them.

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    DataTable dt = new DataTable();
    dt.Columns.Add("Group", typeof(string));
    dt.Columns.Add("Description", typeof(string));
    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
    {
        dt.Rows.Add(GenerateWord(3), "Description");
    }
    this.radGridView1.DataSource = dt;
    this.radGridView1.AutoSizeColumnsMode = Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill;
    this.radGridView1.EnableFiltering = true;
    this.radGridView1.ShowHeaderCellButtons = true;
    this.radGridView1.ShowFilteringRow = false;
    this.radGridView1.CreateCompositeFilterDialog += radGridView1_CreateCompositeFilterDialog;
}

string word = null;
int cons;
int vow;
//counter
int i = 0;
bool isword = false;
Random rand = new Random();
//set a new string array of consonants
string[] consonant = new string[] { "b", "c", "d", "f", "g", "h", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "p",
    "q", "r", "s", "t", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z" };
//set a new string array of vowels
string[] vowel = new string[] { "a", "e", "i", "o", "u" };

string GenerateWord(int length)
{
    if (length < 1) // do not allow words of zero length
        throw new ArgumentException("Length must be greater than 0");

    string word = string.Empty;

    if (rand.Next() % 2 == 0) // randomly choose a vowel or consonant to start the word
        word += consonant[rand.Next(0, 20)];
    else
        word += vowel[rand.Next(0, 4)];

    for (int i = 1; i < length; i += 2) // the counter starts at 1 to account for the initial letter
    { // and increments by two since we append two characters per pass
        string c = consonant[rand.Next(0, 20)];
        string v = vowel[rand.Next(0, 4)];

        if (c == "q") // append qu if the random consonant is a q
            word += "qu";
        else // otherwise just append a random consant and vowel
            word += c + v;
    }

    // the word may be short a letter because of the way the for loop above is constructed
    if (word.Length < length) // we'll just append a random consonant if that's the case
        word += consonant[rand.Next(0, 20)];

    return word;
}

Workaround: By using the CreateCompositeFilterDialog event you can replace the default CompositeFilterForm with your custom one where you can  load all available filter descriptors.

To reproduce:

GridViewMultiComboBoxColumn supplierColumn = new GridViewMultiComboBoxColumn();
supplierColumn.SyncSelectionWithText = true;
supplierColumn.Name = "SupplierColumn";
supplierColumn.HeaderText = "Supplier";
supplierColumn.DropDownStyle = Telerik.WinControls.RadDropDownStyle.DropDown;
supplierColumn.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.Append;
supplierColumn.DataSource = this.suppliersBindingSource;
supplierColumn.ValueMember = "SupplierID";
supplierColumn.DisplayMember = "ContactName";
supplierColumn.FieldName = "SupplierID";
supplierColumn.Width = 200;
this.radGridView1.Columns.Add(supplierColumn);

Select the new row and try to enter some text that is not valid and press Enter. You will notice the new row is added with the last valid auto-completed value.

Workaround: cancel the UserAddingRow event if the entered text is not valid.

To reproduce:

1. Populate RadGridView with data
2. Export the grid by using the SpreadExport
3. Open the produce Excel file and select  some cells to generate a chart in Excel. You will notice that it is not possible to create a complete chart with the selected data.

Workaround: use the ExportToExcelML >> http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/gridview-exporting-data-export-to-excel-via-excelml-format.html 

To reproduce:

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.customersTableAdapter.Fill(this.nwindDataSet.Customers);

    GridViewMultiComboBoxColumn col = new GridViewMultiComboBoxColumn("MCCB column");
    col.DataSource = this.customersBindingSource;
    col.DisplayMember = "ContactName";
    col.ValueMember = "CustomerID";
    this.radGridView1.Columns.Add(col);
    this.radGridView1.AutoSizeColumnsMode = GridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill;
}

private void radGridView1_UserAddingRow(object sender, Telerik.WinControls.UI.GridViewRowCancelEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Rows.First().Cells[0].Value+"" =="ALFKI")
    { 
        MessageBox.Show("Please select a product", "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Exclamation);
        e.Cancel = true;

        this.radGridView1.BeginEdit();
    }
}

Please refer to the attached gif file.

Workaround: use the NumericUpDown.MouseDown event and call the RadGridView.BeginEdit method instead of activating the editor in the UserAddingRow event.

When the current cell belongs to one of the data rows and you click with the left mouse button over a GridFilterCellElement , the editor is activated. However, if you navigate with the arrow keys, the editor is not activated and the user can not see any indication about the current cell.

Workaround:

private void radGridView1_ViewCellFormatting(object sender,
    Telerik.WinControls.UI.CellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    GridFilterCellElement filterCell = e.CellElement as GridFilterCellElement;
    if (filterCell != null)
    {
        if (filterCell.IsCurrent)
        {
            filterCell.BorderWidth = 3;
        }
        else
        {
            filterCell.BorderWidth = 1;
        }
    }
}

To reproduce:
Add a RadGridView and use the following code. When you expand the first row, the vertical scrollbar is not correct. Scrolling down changes its size. However, if you expand the last row, it takes few seconds to open.

Second scenario:
In addition of the following code, if you change the TableElement.PageViewMode to PageViewMode.ExplorerBar, expanding the first row takes few seconds to load the hierarchical data as well.

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        List<Item> items = new List<Item>();
        List<SubItem> subItems = new List<SubItem>();

        for (int i = 1; i <= 3; i++)
        {
            Item item = new Item(i, "Item" + i);
            
            for (int j = 1000; j <= 2010; j++)
            {
                subItems.Add(new SubItem(j, "SubItem" + j, i));
            }

            items.Add(item);
        }

        this.radGridView1.DataSource = items;
        this.radGridView1.AutoSizeColumnsMode = GridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill;

        GridViewTemplate template = new GridViewTemplate();
        template.ReadOnly = true;
        template.AutoSizeColumnsMode = GridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill;

        GridViewRelation relation = new GridViewRelation(this.radGridView1.MasterTemplate, template);
        relation.ParentColumnNames.Add("Id");
        relation.ChildColumnNames.Add("ItemId");
        this.radGridView1.MasterTemplate.Templates.Add(template);
        this.radGridView1.Relations.Add(relation);
        template.DataSource = subItems;
    }
}

public class Item
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    public string Title { get; set; }

    public Item(int id, string title)
    {
        this.Id = id;
        this.Title = title;
    }
}

public class SubItem
{
    public int Id { get; set; }

    public int ItemId { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }
    
    public SubItem(int id, string name, int itemId)
    {
        this.Id = id;
        this.ItemId = itemId;
        this.Name = name;
    }
}

Description:
When you pin data rows from the child template to PinnedRowPosition.Top, it does not affect the row. However, when you pin the certain row to PinnedRowPosition.Bottom, the behavior is correct. The same issue is detected for the header rows from the child template.

1.Different naming of RadGridView templates (in the Smart tag - Relations section and in the Property Builder - Relations section) is confusing.

2.Column reordering via drag and drop in the same template. This action will change the object order of the grid. All changes are shown in the Preview section:  I can select columns listed in the object tree, but cannot drag them up or down within a template. The only way I can reorder columns in the property builder appears to be by dragging them left or right in the preview pane.

3.Column moving via drag and drop from one template to another template. This action will change the object order of the grid. All changes are shown in the Preview section: I cannot move columns in the object tree from one template to another.

4.Template reordering via drag and drop. All changes are shown in the Preview section: drag and drop operation for templates in not allowed.

5.There is a right-click context menu for the object tree, with the following options: "Edit", "Expand / Collapse", "New", "Delete". Under no circumstances do the options "Edit" and "New" ever become enabled.

6.The preview pane displays a preview of the columns for the master template. When the child template is selected, the preview pane still shows a preview of the columns for the master template. As such, it is not possible to reorder columns for child templates in the preview pane.

7.When you set up the RadGridView hierarchy automatically at design time and open the Property Builder, all templates are visualized. It is possible to select/deselect columns from the different templates. It is possible to change columns names. However, when you press the OK button and close the Property Builder, try to reopen it. As a result you will notice that all columns from all child templates are selected and all columns contain the default names, no matter what changes were performed.

Refer to the corresponding help article http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/gridview-design-time-support-property-builder.html

When one exports a grid with text written in right-to-left the exported file has all text written in left-to-right.

Workaround:
Private Sub radGridView1_CellFormatting(sender As Object, e As Telerik.WinControls.UI.CellFormattingEventArgs)
    If e.CellElement.IsPinned Then
        If e.CellElement.RowElement.DrawFill Then
            e.CellElement.DrawFill = False
        Else
            e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, ValueResetFlags.Local)
        End If
    End If
End Sub

When UseCompatibleTextRendering property is set to false, the data cells overlaps the row header cells when horizontal scrolling is performed.

Here is how this issue can be worked around:
void radGridView1_CellEditorInitialized(object sender, GridViewCellEventArgs e) { ((RadMultiColumnComboBoxElement)e.ActiveEditor).AutoSizeDropDownToBestFit = true; ((RadMultiColumnComboBoxElement)e.ActiveEditor).DropDownAnimationEnabled = false; }