Ok, I changed the DisplayLayout ViewType to Hierarchical, but the behaviour stayed the same: The webgrid did not even populate the parent band (no columns shown in the designer) and the DataMember combo does not show any (it should diplay the names of each of the two views of the WHDS I suppose).

What could be wrong?

Thanks a lot.

Can you send me the project including sample DB, please? I'll try to reproduce the problem and find a solution.

Sure, but how can I send you the attachments? As far as I know, there is not support for that in this forum.

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I have the same issue with 9.1. Would like to see this answered as well.

I have the same issue with 8.3. This is really an important and clear question -

Is there a way to get design-time support for hierarchical data in WebGrid, using CLF 2.0?

Now that version 8.3 is out, does the problem persist?

I too am experiencing this behavior. Neither band populates in Design time with exactly the same data setup as above. If I switch the DataSourceID to either of the ObjectDataSources, the band populates correctly, but when I switch it back to the WHDS, no band data is available in the designer.