>I do have a follow-up question tho...
>In VB.Net during design time, when I place the DataGrid on the form, I don't see any way to tell it how many columns, what field they correspond to, how wide the column should default to, or any formatting information for the columns...

Take a look at the TableStyles property of the grid. You need to defineone TableStyle, set is MappingName, and then define the its columns (GridColumnsStyle) to get that type of behavior.

I have an example on how to use grid TableStyles in here:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=c70c9240-d404-4f5c-b2fc-45475ef1eeb0

This example is probably more complicated than what you are looking for, but it might help you if you don't find anything else.



> (are you familar with Visual FoxPro?)... Am I missing something or is the VB.Net DataGrid that different from the Visual FoxPro DataGrid (which is what I'm used to)?

Yes, I am very familiar with VFP. The grid that comes with VB.NET is much more complicated (and not necessary more powerful) than the one in VFP.