Rex,

>I have a business object I instantiate in the master page, but I also use it in a content page. What I am doing now is to conditionally create the business object if it does not exist using the GetBizObj method. Is there a better way to do this?

You could create a static property that holds a reference to this business object and use lazy loading to instantiate it. For example:

public static MyBizObj BizObj
{
   get 
   {
      if (_bizObj == null)
      {
         _bizObj = new MyBizObj();
      }
      return _bizObj;
   }
}
private static MyBizObj _bizObj;

You can then reference the business object from anywhere in your application.