I want to prevent users without WriteAccess to see the GridCommandColumn and a custom GridColumn containing some buttons.

Those two columns are the first in my grid.

If I add AuthorizeView tags like this

<AuthorizeView Policy="MyPolicy">

   <GridCommandColumn ...>

      ...

   </GridCommandColumn>

</AuthorizeView>

<AuthorizeView Policy="MyPolicy">

   <GridColumn ...>

      ...

   </GridColumn>

</AuthorizeView>

they will be hidden if the user does not comply to the policy but if he does comply the columns are displayed not as the first columns in the grid but as the last.

As a workaround I now don't hide the columns but their content (by moving the AuthorizeView tags inside the column tags).  This is not a good solution though since I loose valuable horizontal screen-space for displaying empty columns.