DataSource Controls :: Use Information From Database In The Code-behind?

Basically the main page has a couple of DataSourceObjects sucking information from a local database and displaying them on the page. The page is a form, which then generates an HTML email and fires it off using the SMTPClient. The problem is that I cannot seem to get the data from the database to be accessable from the code-behind. Attempting to get data from either of the ListViews results in a number of Null Exception errors, mainly when using the ExtractItemValues method. The OrderedDictionary that comes back always seems to be empty. So I figured I'd use one of the 3 Object Data Sources I already have set up, that queries the actual database, but cannot find any way of calling the Select statement present in either of them, let alone managing to store and access what comes back.