>In VFP when you set grid.HighlightStyle to 2, "the highlighting for current row persisted when grid is not the current active control".
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>Anybody found the same functionality in vb.net datagridview?

OK. The default behaviour is for the dgv to keep the selection and the highlighting. In dgv.lostfocus, you can clearselection (if you want the other behaviour, i.e. that the selection does not remain visible).