Hey I have quite a fiew fields for a specific form I'm writing. So instead of using a gridview, or detailsview, or formview, I just slapped a bunch of aps:controls on the page and setup my DropDownLists to get their values from the appropriate database tables. Now I don't see a <FORM> tag in design time, but when I run it and view source it shows up so I'm assuming its working fine and has something to do with my masterpage, but whats the easiest way to bind the data to the controls without having to do it manually at Page_Load on each control?? Is it as easy as when you use a GridView or FormView? Can I do the Bind and Eval methods in my asp code or will that not work?



NOTE I do have strongly typed tableadapters with methods for getting my data, I'm just not sure how to get it into these controls without using a GridView, formview, etc...


Thanks!