With the kendoGrid, if no columns are specified, all columns are automatically rendered. However, dates (at least, I have not tested other non-strings) are rendered in non-human-readable form (at least if they are from SQL Server).

Since date rendering is tied to culture parameters, it would make sense to specify culture at the grid object level and have dates, currency, etc. render according to that. It would also be great to have filters setup for these different types applied to dynamic columns.