We are using Business Binding Source to bind an object to Devexpress Grid.

In my case, I have an instance object (Companies). But I have to drop that type of object on the form for informing the Devexpress grid. At Design time, I can easily manage the columns etc.

Is there any way to accomplish this without dropping Business Object on the form?

What you could do is drop a copy of the Companies BO onto the form, drop a BBS onto the form and set the Companies BO as the source, configure the devexpress components to use the BBS to access the fields you want, then delete the copy of the Companies BO. I believe that this will leave all the devexpress bindings in place. Then at run time bind the Groups.companies BO to the BBS. However this would be difficult to maintain and I would not do it!

I suggest that you leave the Companies BO on the form and either copy the datatable from the Groups.Companies BO into it, or maybe ShareCurrentDataTable (which I know nothing about but sounds promising in this instance).

Hope this helps

Peter