Learning resources: Dialogs and asp.net formviews

Learning resources: Dialogs and asp.net formviews

Can anyone recommend any learning resources concerning asp.net formviews and dialogs?  I'm having to learn by scavenger hunt and it feels like I'm stumbling in the dark.

Here is what I have been able to piece together so far:
  1. I can define a dialog that contains a div with a formview (connected to a sqldatasource).
  2. I can open the dialog by selecting a row in a gridview, with the intention of editing the row in the dialog formview.
But here's where I'm stuck in the mud: when I click "update" null values are sent to the table rather than the updated values.  

I haven't posted the code that I'm working on because I'm trying to gather general methods rather than specific spot help on a piece of code.  Any ideas? Thanks