Had to put this here as it’s such a great article which shows the power of SharePoint – such an oddity at times – yet so much work has gone into the platform.

http://www.bryancook.net/2009/09/understanding-sharepoints-ddwrtdatabind.html 

Basically how you can use standard ASP.NET controls to bind to SharePoint Fields using a little trick involving XSLT … awesome.  Nice one Bryan!

Cheers

Dave Mc