Hi Kevin,

Unfortunately, .NET DataGrids don't have the same builtin functionality as VFP does. Here are some links to 3rd Party DataGrids that "claim" to provide the control you are wanting. I would download the demos and play around with them:

http://componentone.com/products.aspx?ProductCode=1&ProductID=18

http://infragistics.com/products/grids.asp?sec=1


>In Visual FoxPro, a developer had the ability to set the foreground/background color and font attributes dynamically for any cell in a grid, based on a runtime condition. There were actually properties called...
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>Grid.DynamicForecolor = 'IIF(,'RED','BLUE')
>Grid.DynamicForeBold = 'IIF(,.t.,.f.)
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>It was very powerful for our UI. I'm trying to do the same thing with a WinForms datagrid, and have been having some problems. You have to write a fair amount of code to do this.
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>I pulled down different code samples on SYNCFUSION [in their WinForms FAQ section]. Each sample provides some of the functionality, but not all of it. One code sample actually provided all the capabilities, but then I could no longer access the column ALIGNMENT property, which I use to right-justify numeric fields.
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>Has anyone tried this? Is there a 3rd party grid column style that will do this?
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>Thanks,
>Kevin

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