"beforeChange" like event also missing.

It would be good, if event set for kendo grid was equal to teleik ui for asp.net ajax radGrid

Please consider adding Kendo Grid CellClose event. Internally kendo grid call CloseCell() to close the editor when focus is moved away.  kendo grid already have the model object.  All you would have to do is add a simple CellClose event for those of us that use complex custom editors.  This would allow us to do model adjustments or "cleanup" when the cell is closing.

There is an implementation here on StackExchange that does more or less exactly what is needed (Alternative 2).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20881484/make-cell-readonly-in-kendo-grid-if-condition-is-met

I would like to have this build into the grid and with MVC bindings for the event though.

Add a new event "BeforeEdit" in grid

I have a lot of situations when I need to check status of editing object in a grid.
If status is correct I should allowed editing object. If status is not correct I should prevent showing editing form.
Now I have two solutions:

The first: is not beautiful but fast:
I  can close popup edit form, that has been already created by inner mechanism of Kendo editing:

function Grid_OnEdit(e) {
        if (!isCorrectStatus(e.model.StatusID)) {
            var grid = this;
            setTimeout(function () {
                grid.cancelRow();
                alert("Bad status!");
            });
        }   
}

But the popup edit form flicks...

The second: do it “by hand”. Including even server validation…
Very slow…

just god knows how many times I need events which occurs after : edit , add, delete and when user click cancel command the cancel event occurs before data-binding and the grid lost the selected row.

Currently, if a field is editable based on other field (e.g. Locked) a check should be performed in "edit" event handler, and inside here call grid.closeCell(). But this causes the cell focus to be lost (when using navigatable=true in batch editing mode).

So a beforeEdit would allow the user to set some custom logic if needed.

I'd like to see an ItemDataBound event for row databinding. A common use case is to highlight rows (eg change the styling) if the data meets certain criteria. There are plenty of questions around on the internet asking how to do this, and the colution of using DataBound and iterating over the data is, quite frankly, a poor solution and not at all performant.

an on ItemDataBound or RowDataBound would be very useful

I have use for both a contentsModified and afterEdit events.

I would also add that events should be fired for resize and reorder. I can't consider KendoUI's grid as it doesn't have this yet and it is needed. With the resize event it would be nice to have the event object contain each columns size.