>>Hi Michel. In VFP 5.0 I have created a pretty slick grid control ...
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>Greg, I am particulary interested in a sublclassed version of a grid control that alleviates VFP's legacy problem of the grid's visual characteristics getting munged whenever it is disconnected from its underlying datasource.

This is a major problem I've had to. The following code seems to work,

this.grid.recordsource=' ' ( you need the space)
this.grid.recordsource='mynewalias'

Don't ask me why this works.