Hi Einar,

The indexer is read-only which is why the messagebox worked.

>the watch window tells me that: GridColumnStyles doesn't have an indexer?!?!?
>Now I believe that this is wrong, because I have and can still use it's indexer there is just one thing that I can not use it's indexer for.
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>I am using the GridColumnStyles indexer when I am writing the column widths to a XML file:
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>wtr.WriteElementString("Width", this.dataGrid1.TableStyles[0].GridColumnStyles[i].Width.ToString());
>

>
>but When I try to read from the XML file and assign the saved column with back to the datagrid column
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>this.dataGrid1.TableStyles[0].GridColumnStyles[iCounter].Width = Convert.ToInt16(rdr.Value);
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>this line throws an exception stating that GridColumnStyles doesn't have an indexer.
>
>Now here comes the wierd part. If I replace the line above with a messagebox it works (well the assignment doesn't work but I get messageboxes with the column's width)
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>MessageBox.Show(this.dataGrid1.TableStyles[0].GridColumnStyles[iCounter].Width.ToString());
>//this.dataGrid1.TableStyles[0].GridColumnStyles[iCounter].Width = Convert.ToInt16(rdr.Value);
>

>
>Is there something I am missing?
>
>Thanks,
>Einar