To reproduce: public RadForm1() { InitializeComponent(); radGridView1.DataSource = GetTable(); GridViewSummaryItem summaryItem = new GridViewSummaryItem(); summaryItem.Name = "Name"; summaryItem.Aggregate = GridAggregateFunction.Count; GridViewSummaryRowItem summaryRowItem = new GridViewSummaryRowItem(); summaryRowItem.Add(summaryItem); this.radGridView1.SummaryRowsBottom.Add(summaryRowItem); radGridView1.ViewCellFormatting += RadGridView1_ViewCellFormatting; } private void RadGridView1_ViewCellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e) { if (e.CellElement is GridSummaryCellElement) { e.CellElement.DrawFill = true; e.CellElement.GradientStyle = Telerik.WinControls.GradientStyles.Solid; e.CellElement.BackColor = Color.Red; } else { e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.BackColorProperty, Telerik.WinControls.ValueResetFlags.Local); e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.GradientStyleProperty, Telerik.WinControls.ValueResetFlags.Local); e.CellElement.ResetValue(LightVisualElement.DrawFillProperty, Telerik.WinControls.ValueResetFlags.Local); } } protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { base.OnLoad(e); radGridView1.MasterView.SummaryRows[0].PinPosition = PinnedRowPosition.Bottom; } static DataTable GetTable() { DataTable table = new DataTable(); table.Columns.Add("Dosage", typeof(int)); table.Columns.Add("Drug", typeof(string)); table.Columns.Add("Name", typeof(string)); table.Columns.Add("Date", typeof(DateTime)); for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { table.Rows.Add(25, "Indocin", "David", DateTime.Now); table.Rows.Add(50, "Enebrel", "Sam", DateTime.Now); table.Rows.Add(10, "Hydralazine", "Christoff", DateTime.Now); table.Rows.Add(21, "Combivent", "Janet", DateTime.Now); table.Rows.Add(100, "Dilantin", "Melanie", DateTime.Now); } return table; } private void radButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { radGridView1.SaveLayout("test.xml"); } private void radButton2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { radGridView1.SummaryRowsBottom.Clear(); radGridView1.SummaryRowsTop.Clear(); radGridView1.LoadLayout("test.xml"); }