>>I am doing a simple maintenance form. I ran the form and saw the default table in the grid. I next created my columns and they are visible. Unfortunalty I still see the default listing of all the columns. So instead of presenting 4 I see 12.
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>>Any idea on how to stop those default columns after I create the custom columns?
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>If you're doing a maintenance form, I'm guessing you mean the mmDataGridView? If so, you need to set the grid's AutoGenerateColumns property needs to be set to false. Oddly enough, you can't set this property through the Properties Window...you must do it programmatically. For example:
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public MyForm()
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>   InitializeComponent();
>   this.grdMappings.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
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>}

Thanks.