Hi-- I'm usually a PHP guy but got stuck doing a project in vb.net.

I have a query (sqldatasource) that returns a single value (the last update date).

I want to use a label to say something like "Last updated: " < Label = (returned value) >

In PHP this would be simple. In vb.net, all I can find are endless badly written code behinds showing how you'd execute the query onLoad then bind it to the label.

Is this really the only way to do this? It seems like a ridiculously simple problem to have such a long solution. I have used a datagrid control to just bind the query result directly, but it prints the column name as well as the date, so it's not ideal.

Any ideas?