>Thanks Cetin -
>
>I have watched a few of the MS training videos on this and have it as far as you go. But I find the form view too constrained for my tastes. I'd like to work with textboxes instead. Maybe this is just a lack of familiarity. What do you think? Can you tell me how to place the data into a textbox?
>- Don

I'm not versed with web controls but AFAIK you can only bind to databound controls (DataGrid,GridView,FormView,DataList...). For a textbox you'd need to set the value between posts. You can bind to data:

<% Bind(...) %>

But that is hard to handle as I found out, prone to error messages when you add code like DataBind() etc.

FormView content is template enabled (and almost all of them) and you could set a template where view/edit is exactly how you want it to be with a textbox that is not inside a formview.
Cetin