Grid protection refer to the set of properties that can help you restrict the user to perform certain actions with the grid in general. For operations that apply to columns, usually there is also a respective Column- Protection property that can restrict the same operation for a specific column only. The following table outlines the grid protection properties:

Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to format the columns.

Property	Description
Column Operations
AllowSortColumns	Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to sort the columns by clicking on them.
AllowFilterColumns	Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to filter the columns by clicking on filter symbol in each column header.
AllowReorderColumns	Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to reorder the columns by dragging them around the columns panel.
AllowResizeColumns	Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to resize the columns.
AllowBestFitColumns	Gets or sets whether the best fit columns operation is allowed to the user.
AllowFormatColumns	Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to format the columns from the column context menu.
Row Operations
AllowResizeRows	Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to resize the rows.
AllowBestFitRows	Gets or sets whether the best fit rows operation is allowed to the user.
AllowDeleteRows	Gets or sets whether the delete rows operation is allowed to the user.
General Operations
AllowEdit	Gets or sets whether the user is allowed to edit cell values.