Working with data

Hi
I am new to ASP.NETand web matrix, and was previously using dreamweaver and ASP. From what I can gether, it is fairly straight forward to request data using datagrids and, but sometimes they can be quite restrictive and it would be nice to be able to easily refer to columns within a dataset, say for example if you wanted to incorporate it into some text on the page, as you would in dreamweaver. Has anybody got any tips?
Thanks
marcus

Yeh just set the following to a var. of some form and use it however you want it or just use the code -- the first one is selecting row and then column and the second one just chooses a column:

DsPerformanceTabStrip1.Tables("Goals").Rows(0).Item(0)

DsPerformanceTabStrip1.Tables("Goals").Columns(0)

Hi Cant seem toget this to work.

changed all the names to refer to my select??

thanks

marcus