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>Interesting. Does it mean I can do something like
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>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).

You may also need to think about what happens when you've got multiple instances of the same user control on the form.