All of the commercial frameworks have numerous grid enhancements, bug work arounds, etc. Of the frameworks, I would say that Visual MaxFrame Professional has the most polished grids and the most features available for grids. I think all of the frameworks have features that'll make what you're trying to do easier. You can probably get them for about the same price as some of the better ActiveX grids (that may or may not work with VFP) and get tons of other VFP sample code as well.