Pat,

>I was able to get the grid to populate with the proper defined columns using the instructions from DevExpress via creation of an oledataadapter, connection, and dataset that is on the form.
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>When I remove those links and reset the mmGridControl to use bindingsource of the class, I lose the column definitions and get the entire table from the class without the custom headers, etc.

Can you post the code you used to populate the DataGrid columns using the instructions from DevExpress?

Regards,