David,
aplogies for the direct mail, I copied your dbcviewprops.prg from your website and it works fine ( thank you ). However I've just discovered a few other things ( I know I'm a bit slow but I don't use that many grids )

1) VFP uses its own grid ( naff ) if you select a view/table from the DE.
2) If you use your own grid and set the ControlSource to fields in a view, you don't get the view/table captions.

Is there any way to set a grid template?
Four days to main beer drinking session.
Regards
Pete Kane