>FormView frmRegular = (FormView) this.Page.FindControl("myFormViewName") >if ...Can you? Yes, it should work. However I wouldn't do an explicit cast and I wouldn't hardcode in the control name. If the control doesn't exist your code will throw an exception. Instead, something like:
FormView regular = Page.FindControl(this.FormViewNameProperty) as FormView; if (regular != null)(you'd need to create a property in your user control, I'm using FormViewNameProperty as an example).