Thanks Bonnie!

Well, I've gotten past most of it, about 4-5 days on grid (DataGridView), custom columns with custom properties and delegates. It was very difficult because the documentation is scattered and difficult to follow. It being too large to print is not an excuse, in my mind, for the terrible state of documentation.

My regular custom controls (textbox, checkbox, combobox, etc...) go right into the custom grid columns nicely so I'm using objects that I've created without creating new. Getting it to work has been trial and error! Clone() really threw me; what helped was looking through VS 2008 bug reports online where I found four other posts about the same issue and the answer was to use clone() on the custom column.

Luckily I've had the MacDonald book, which has a fantastic chapter on DataGridView (thank heavens for it), but about six other books that I have spend, at most, a few pages on DataGridView - which is not right for a book that costs $50 and is about winform controls!

But it surprises me more that there are so few here that have gone into customizing columns in DataGridView.

Be well. I will have to spent more time over at MSDN for q&a.

Kind regards,
Derek