Data binding to a CompositeControl

I am very new at using the CompositeControl or CompositeDataBoundControl and at DataBinding in general

My requirement is that I would like to declaratively tell my control to bind to a specific instance of a class; the control then looks at the metadata held in the instance to provide the appropriate control behavior.

The syntax follows the 'standard' <tag:controlname DataSource="here I don't know what to specify" />. What I want in "here I don't know what to specify" is something like instanceName.someFieldOrProperty, where the field (property) has a metadata to describe the behavior of the field.

From within the control I would like to be able to access the field via the DataSource property.

I thought of using an event driven approach and have the control.DataBinding event execute an event handler that would take the DataSource of some container (like a panel) and figure out the metadata in the field of the data source; but, this seems overly complex.

In a nutshell, given an instance fld containing a reference to someClass.someFieldOrProperty, I would like the more direct approach of using DataSource ="fld". Is 'fld' accessible within the code of the control?

Thanks

P.S. I have been following the very good examples in the newsgroup, but I have not figured this out yet.
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