jct said:

I want to show the user how many rows there are in the first band excluding the template row and the flter row. Which property will give me the exact number?

grid.Rows.Count

jct said:

In addition, I want to show "X rows out of Y" when a filter is applied and only X rows are being shown.

grid.Rows.FilteredInRowCount

jct said:

What is the event that I should listen to in order to know when the rows count has been changed?

This is a little tricky. By default, the grid does the filtering lazily. Try using the AfterRowFilterChanged event. If you find that the numbers you are getting in this event are not correct, then it must be because the filters have changed, but the rows haven't actually been filtered yet. If that's the case, then you will need to force the filtering to be performed synchronously. To do that, you have the BeforeRowFilterChanged event and set e.ProcessMode to Synchronous