yeah google, I just typed freeze columns in datagrid into www.google.com and that article was the first one, maybe you should try searching first

Most people don't use that because it sucks, javascript ones are much nicer. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

You may want to open Task Manager, go to the View menu and Select Columns. Turn on the Handles column. Then run your application and start using it. If you application continues to accumulate handles and starts to climb over, say, 1,500 handles, you've got a handle leak problem. Your code isn't releasing unmanaged resources, like GDI handles, file handles, window handles, ... This means you're not calling .Dispose() on objects, like Graphics, Brush, Font, Pen, forms shown with ShowDialog(), ... A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

Hi, Thanks for the reply. I am doing that to maintain the format of the replaced text. Is there any other way to do the same?