BTW, some of the third party grid controls for .NET do make the layout definition much easier than the one that comes with VS.NET



>>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...
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>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.
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>I have an example on how to use grid TableStyles in here:
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>http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=c70c9240-d404-4f5c-b2fc-45475ef1eeb0
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>This example is probably more complicated than what you are looking for, but it might help you if you don't find anything else.
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>> (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)?
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>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.