Hi, Mike,

yes, something is wrong, I found the error: because I used methods in the wrong order.

In WindowsForms LoadEvent I used the following methods:

1. Binding DataSource to Grid.

2. After step 1. the Grid goes in the InitializeEvent ...

(In these Event I defined one ColumnFilter programmatically, in order to get filtered data rows!)

3. Finally I used the method LoadGridLayout from XML file.

But the step 2 pointed out a mistake - the step 3 overwrote the ColumnFilter, so I could not see any rows after Step 3, because FilterCondition mismatched!

The correct order should be:

1. Binding DataSource to Grid.

2. After step 1. the Grid goes in the InitializeEvent ...

3. Use method LoadGridLayout from XML for column position and visibility.

4. At the end to set ColumnFilter to Grid, to filter data rows and it works fine.

Thanks for your helps & regards

I'm afraid I do not understand what you mean. The flags I listed here include everything except the filters applied to a column.

If the Hidden property of a column is not being saved, then something is wrong. I tested out this code before I posted it and it worked fine for me.

PropertyCategories is a flagged enumeration. So you can combine values.

If you want to save everything but the filters, you could do this:

this.ultraGrid1.DisplayLayout.SaveAsXml("file.xml", PropertyCategories.All & ~PropertyCategories.ColumnFilters);