Hi,

I do quite a bit of this sort of thing.

All I do is keep it very simple.

I design all my forms from scratch using ASP and HTML, using a basic text editor such as NoteTab. Once you have done one bit of code it can be reused for various forms.

You can retrieve/post data to and from the database using stored procedures with parameters. That way the information is returned to the page very quickly.

You are right some apps aren't very flexible which is why I do my own. If you don't want to get into raw coding Visual Studio is more than capable (I believe) in doing this.

Merry Xmas

Graeme