I personaly do not use this method for images but rather put it as part of my datasource ie: select rowid, rowname, rowicon='<img src="fred.png" title="fred" />'... that way i have more control over what is being displayed and normally just put a field in my table that contains the icon information and/or use a case statement on a int/bit field like case rowStatus WHEN 1 THEN 'altimage info' etc...

 On the band stuff are you talking about like a rowspan or colspan type display? not sure what you actually mean by this one.

Hi Kartikeya,

This might help with the images problem:

http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.2/CLR2.0/html/WinGrid_Display_a_Picture_in_a_Cell.html 

Andy.