>>Stephane,
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>>Are you trying to move these conrols at run time or design time?
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>>Mike

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>At run time.
>Thanks

You didn't make that clear in your original post and I think a lot of the replies that you received assumed that the problem was at design time.

I did something like what you are trying to accomplish. I allowed users to drag and drop from a list of fields onto a form at runtime. A specific control had to be used depending on the field type (dropdownlist for foreign keys, spinners for numeric, etc.) I, however, never had to do this for a grid control since I was only allowing the users to select individual fields. The grid would be used for records no?

Anyway, my control classes were all based on a container. If your grid works within a container, why not keep it there?

Good luck.

Regards,

Mike.