asp.net gridview custom datasource

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I have an application that extracts data from some xml that is stored in a database. In the Page_Load event I have the code extracting the xml out of the db, parsing the XML and saving the data I need in a list of Strings. Then I use this code:\[code\]dataGrid.DataSource = from field in stringList select field;dataGrid.DataBind();\[/code\]It prints out the list, but I need to have more control over it. The GridView properties in the GUI don't really reflect anything from the Page_Load event (which I'm not too surprised about) but I need to be able to generate hyperlinks with the data and using an HTMLTextWriter didn't work as the GridView just auto-escaped all the HTML. I am not really a .Net programmer and am not familiar with how this works. Should I have put the custom code somewhere other that the Page_Load event?