Not sure if you mean that DD is just on the top standard ASP.Net site, so you can switch from DD, the really great flexibility is that you can just use the DD bit that you need in your ASP project .Net (you don’t need to lift the site), you can simply use business rules and FieldTemplate to speed up the development of your site. For example, in DetailsView, when editing a table that receives a drop-down list for selecting from a linked table, it is always a pain in ASp.Net, but this is a mixture in a small DD, you get it for free .: D see my blog here User pages Part 3 - Standard page ASP.Net with Dynamic Data features added to use FieldTemplates.