I recently had to use the detailsview with my custom object ‘Subscriber’ which had a property ‘Subscription’ of type enum. I ran into a problem when inserting / updating this object. During this operation I received the error ‘Objectdatasource couldnt find a non-generic method….’ .I used the Objectdatasource to bind the  ‘Subscriber’ object to the Detailsview. When I did this, the Detailsview didn't not automatically generate the column for the enum property ‘Subcription’, but the ObjectDataSource’s parameters list had this enum listed, I had to manually add this property as a column. After spending sometime I found the solution, which I have presented below. Enum: public enum Subscription { Unsubscribed, New, Subscribed } Custom Object: [DataObject] public class Subscriber : BusinessObject { private int _subscriberID = 0; publ... [More]