Hey Tim thanks for the response. I was trying to avoid having two business objects that basically served the same purpose.

I guess to answer your question, I was trying to be able to instantiate and use one business object to maintain and display data in grids that only needed to display data without editing or deleting. I am using the Infragistics grid. I decided to just use a sqldatasource, but I am sort of anal and I like keeping data access standardized throughout the app.

I was eventually able to do what was in the documentation about shaped entities, but as of yesterday I was still trying to get the data to appear in my grid through binding.