I give the user the ability to enable/disable row coloring on the fly.  The backcolor is determined by a column value.  However when in groupby mode I run into a problem and I have to test if a row is a group by row and that works but when the group by is 2 or three deep things get complicated.  Trying to determine the best way to loop through the rows.  When I encounter each sub Group should i use recursion to loop through them.  Or should i use the intializeGroupby event however that only seems to look at the firstrow of each group.  Also how do I get the groupby row count to use use in my for each statement.  Here is some example code and example data.

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this is the initial meathod I was using a check box to turn on and off the backcoloring but one works with one sub group only.

 Private Sub CheckBox1_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBox1.CheckedChanged
        Dim strStatus As String
        Dim iRow As Integer = 1
        For Each ugrow As UltraGridRow In UltraGrid1.Rows
            If CheckBox1.Checked = True Then
                If ugrow.IsGroupByRow = False Then
                    strStatus = ugrow.Cells("Status").Value.ToString
                    Select Case strStatus
                        Case "One"
                            ugrow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.PowderBlue 'FromArgb(255, 85, 85)
                        Case "Two"
                            ugrow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Pink 'FromArgb(255, 128, 128) '85, 85)
                        Case "Three"
                            ugrow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Purple 'FromArgb(255, 192, 128)
                        Case "Four"
                            ugrow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Orange 'FromArgb(255, 85, 85)
                        Case "Five"
                            ugrow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.PaleGreen 'FromArgb(255, 128, 128) '85, 85)
                    End Select
                Else
                    For Each ugChildRow As UltraGridRow In ugrow.ChildBands(0).Rows
                        strStatus = ugChildRow.Cells("Status").Value.ToString
                        Select Case strStatus
                            Case "One"
                                ugChildRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.PowderBlue 'FromArgb(255, 85, 85)
                            Case "Two"
                                ugChildRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Pink 'FromArgb(255, 128, 128) '85, 85)
                            Case "Three"
                                ugChildRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Purple 'FromArgb(255, 192, 128)
                            Case "Four"
                                ugChildRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Orange 'FromArgb(255, 85, 85)
                            Case "Five"
                                ugChildRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.PaleGreen 'FromArgb(255, 128, 128) '85, 85)
                        End Select
                    Next
                End If
            Else
                If iRow Mod 2 = 0 Then
                    ugrow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.Gainsboro
                Else
                    ugrow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.White
                End If
                iRow = iRow + 1
            End If
        Next
    End Sub

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This is the initializeGroupby event as another approch to attempt to change the backcolor. when the check box is checked i reload the grid from the dataset and this event gets fired but while it never throws an error it only seems to color the first row in each group.  But yet this is ineffective. 

Private Sub initGroupBy(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.InitializeGroupByRowEventArgs) Handles ugTestGrid.InitializeGroupByRow
            Dim strStatus As String
                If uceEnableColor.Checked = True Then
                    If e.Row.Rows(0).IsGroupByRow = False Then
                        Debug.Print("Row count: " & e.Row.ChildBands.Count)  'trying to get group by rows count
                        For Each ugRow As UltraGridRow In e.Row.Rows  'trying to get group by rows count
                            strStatus = ugRow.Cells("Status").Value.ToString
                            Select Case strStatus
                                Case "0ne"
                                    ugRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(255, 128, 128) '85, 85)
                                Case "Two"
                                    ugRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(255, 192, 128)
                                Case "Three"
                                    ugRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(128, 128, 255)
                                Case "Four"
                                    ugRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.FromArgb(128, 255, 128) 'LightGreen
                                Case "Five"
                                    ugRow.Appearance.BackColor = Color.LimeGreen 'Green
                            End Select
                        Next
                    End If
                End If
        End Sub

THANKS for any help!!!