Sounds like some .AfterInit() is needed in your fwk for databinding and such buildings...

>Hi
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>The problem with "ThisForm" is that some of the containers are not fully initialized when the grid column is being built so it fails.
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>Simon
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>>>>Ho
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>>>>I know I have done this before but I have forgotten how to use a Method as the ControlSource for a grid column. I want to have a custom method in the grid that I can use to supply the text to display in the grid column. Since the text cannot simple be created in one line I wanted to set the ControlSource to something like "This.parent.GetTheText()" but I always get an error that the method "GetTheText()" does not exist. Perhaps "This" is not usable in the expression so I wondered how this can be done.
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>>>The expression used is relative to the column, i.e. in it "this" means "this column". Start from there when counting parents.
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>>Or, you could just bigger hammer it and drill down starting with Thisform.