It looks as if the gridview's rowfilter is a read-only (Get) property.

Example : no problem to get Msgbox(Gridview.Rowfilter) and have this returned => "

 like '437%'"

What I would like to do is to enter, that is : set a value by code @formload,

something like : me.gridview.rowfilter = "

 like '437%'"

Phil

ok, find some CSharp code in then knowledgebase after all, tried it in vb.net and it works.

Problem solved, great !