Mark,

>Thanks. I guess that's true for simply displaying the value. I should have been more specific and indicated that I am also wanting to populate a dropdownlist with a list of venues when in the gridview's edit mode, at which point I am assuming I would need a business object or some other object for the related table. Any suggestions along these lines?

I would handle the combo box differently and have another business object from which I could retrieve a list of items to fill the combo box. If it make sense in your object model, you can alternately create an additional data table in an existing DataSet to which you can bind your combo box. For details, see the MM .NET Dev Guide topic "Working with Multiple DataTables in a DataSet".

Best Regards,