>>>Why not serve just the data from the Web service and then use ASP.Net's datagrid (or whatever) to bind to the data and display it directly from the data source?
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>That's what I should have done and will do next time. I had built the web service a while back before I knew about the ASP control templates. It would be too much work to change it all just for one hyperlink.

Yeah I know. Templates are not all that user friendly and there are a number of things I've not been able to do with them due to the data binding limitations of the DataBinder.

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