hi, due to desing restictions, the sqldatasource's select command & connection string, must be entrer every time at run time, when i try to group a radgrid's column i have no records as result, in the other hand, when i define the sqldatasource's select command and connection string through the wizard, i have no problem to group the column, then you can help me?, what i'm doing wrong, thanks for your help. sorry for my english, i'm working on it