Sounds like you need to subclass the grid control and add a custom method to the grid. You can name it something like SetProperties() or whatever. It will need to accept a parameter for each property in the grid class that you need to modify for each query. ie ColumnCount, Header.Caption, ColumnWidth etc. If you know ahead of time what you are about to load into the grid you can pass the appropriate parameters to this method. If your queries are built on the fly then you will have more work to do. :)