Sweet, this has saved me the hastle of iterating through the cells one by one on each row to determine if they are in an error condition.

Thanks Mike but I had to be a little more dynamic.

Private Sub grdListData_InitializeRow(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.InitializeRowEventArgs) Handles grdListData.InitializeRow
            For each Cell as Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridCell in e.Row.Cells
               If e.Row.Cells.Exists(cell.Column.Key & "_Color") then
                  If not e.Row.Cells(cell.Column.Key & "_Color").Value is system.DBNull.Value then
                     Cell.Appearance.ForeColor = color.FromKnownColor(CType(e.Row.Cells(cell.Column.Key & "_Color").Value, KnownColor))
                  End If
               End If
            Next
         End Sub

There's nothing to it:

        private void ultraGrid1_InitializeRow(object sender, InitializeRowEventArgs e)
        {
            UltraGrid grid = (UltraGrid)sender;
            int x = (int)e.Row.Cells["Int32 1"].Value;
            switch (x)
            {
                case 0:
                    e.Row.Cells["String 1"].Appearance = grid.DisplayLayout.Appearances["Red"];
                    break;
                case 1:
                    e.Row.Cells["String 1"].Appearance = grid.DisplayLayout.Appearances["Yellow"];
                    break;
                case 2:
                    e.Row.Cells["String 1"].Appearance = grid.DisplayLayout.Appearances["Blue"];
                    break;
            }
        }

I am also looking at setting different call appearence properties based on the value in another cell. My issue seems to be getting the proper object.

My plan was to loop through the cells in the InitializeRow event, but I have not been able to get the proper syntax.

Can you provide an example of setting appearence properties of a cell based on another cell?