Thanks to all for replying.

For manman, a user control is an ASCX file. The Visual Web Developer help has a nice tutorial on it.

As for SubSonic - I've found two projects called SubSonic (at least I think they're separate). One on Codeplex, the other at subsonicproject.com.

Ultimately, I' not sure that Subsonic is what I'm after at the moment as Jim has suggested that (while not the DNN "way"), it's perfectly legitimate to continue to implement my current DAL.

So my final question (for now) relates to the need to store the ModuleID (as per the tutorial that Michael Wahsington has provided the link for). I understand that this module ID is created by DNN and stored in DNN's own database and used by DNN to identify messages to and from an instance. As these apps I need to port are single instance only, do I still need to include a ModuleID field in my data store?

Thanks again to all for your responses.

Mike

I didnt' read the Cosdeplex site properly - they're the same project.