Hi Metin,
It depends where you drug control from. I see behaviour you describe when I drop control from the Form Controls toolbar. I think it's a bug. If I drag and drop from Toolbox than control is placed correctly. I didn't try to drag from Project or Class Browser.
>in design time:
>
>put "lockcolumns" to "2"
>select column 1
>drop any control to column1.
>
>You'll see dropped control on third column.
--sb--