>>As I can see this still fits to user control and master pages.
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>The code behind GetHeader() and GetFooter() is big and handle a lot of things. It was important for me to sit in the object itself to handle all that. It is also much easier for a junior developer to take over after the project as everything is in the class within two methods.

OK I surrender:) If it was C# I would say partial classes already does it the way you want but I don't know how it goes with VB.
Cetin