Being a longtime ASP.NET Guy who refused to type a value in a VS.NET property window for over four years, I'm starting to find love with the 2.0 Windows Forms properties. The DataGridView is shown in the image below. There's still ample opportunity to get in there and code against the CellvalueNeed, CellPainting, RowPostPaint, and other events, but the wealth of properties to click at is bodacious! In the pic I'm using the WYSIWYG for the AlternateRowsDefaultCellStyle. Getting a nice Lavender groove going.