Detailsview control

I seem to understand how the control works as long as I mated to
SqlDataSource or ObjDataSource it works fine. But I do not want to flatten
my design in this manner. I am interested in how I can programmatically
manipulate the control. In other words maybe just use the data source then
extract from the control the information do with it as I see fit. The
opposite is also true. I want to be able to add or modify the data in the
detailsview control without the assistance of a SqlDatasource.

Has anyone done this? I have google this to death to no avail.

Thanks,

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