It is not very difficuilt to do what you are asking. To have a column host
you user control, you need to implement your ount custom datagridview column
and you own datagridview cell.

Example :

this would be your daragridview column

public class DataGridViewUsrCtrlColumn : DataGridViewColumn

{

public DataGridViewUsrCtrlColumn() : base(new DataGridViewUsrCtrlCell())

{

}

}

then you need to implement you own datagridview cell. Example :

public class DataGridViewUsrCtrlCell : DataGridViewTextBoxCell

{

private readonly TextFormatFlags mCellFlags =
TextFormatFlags.HorizontalCenter | TextFormatFlags.VerticalCenter;

private readonly Font mFont = new Font("Time New Roman", 10);

public override void InitializeEditingControl(int rowIndex, object
initialFormattedValue, DataGridViewCellStyle dataGridViewCellStyle)

{

base.InitializeEditingControl(rowIndex, initialFormattedValue,
dataGridViewCellStyle);

YourUsrCtrl ctrl = DataGridView.EditingControl as YourUsrCtrl;

if (ctrl != null)

{

ctrl.MyValue = (YourValue)this.Value;

// Initialise the control with the object

}

}

public override Type EditType

{

get

{

// this is the type of uour control that will be hostend when cell is in
edit mode

return typeof(YourUsrCtrl);

}

}

public override Type ValueType

{

get

{

// this is the type of your object hosted on the cell

return typeof(YourObject);

}

}

public override object ParseFormattedValue(object formattedValue,
DataGridViewCellStyle cellStyle, System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
formattedValueTypeConverter, System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
valueTypeConverter)

{

// return the right object that is parsed from the text

return this.Value;

}

protected override object GetFormattedValue(object value, int rowIndex, ref
DataGridViewCellStyle cellStyle, System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
valueTypeConverter, System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
formattedValueTypeConverter, DataGridViewDataErrorContexts context)

{

return value.ToString();

// Put code to format the value correctly

}

protected override void Paint(Graphics graphics, Rectangle clipBounds,
Rectangle cellBounds, int rowIndex, DataGridViewElementStates cellState,
object value, object formattedValue, string errorText, DataGridViewCellStyle
cellStyle, DataGridViewAdvancedBorderStyle advancedBorderStyle,
DataGridViewPaintParts paintParts)

{

this.PaintBorder(graphics, clipBounds, cellBounds, cellStyle,
advancedBorderStyle);

base.Paint(graphics, clipBounds, cellBounds, rowIndex, cellState, value,
formattedValue, errorText, cellStyle, advancedBorderStyle, paintParts);

if (value != null)

{

string fmtValue = (string)formattedValue;

Size proposedSize = new Size(cellBounds.Width, cellBounds.Height);

graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Blue, cellBounds);

TextRenderer.DrawText(graphics, "My text", mFont, cellBounds, Color.White,
mCellFlags);

}

}

}

hope this helps

Fitim Skenderi