Hi Rex,

The reason why you are getting the "shadowed" message is because you can't inherit the html portion of the ASP.NET, just the Page class itself. When you drop a label on the subclassed page, ASP.NET sees that as a new object that has the same name as an object referenced in the parent class. It therefore needs you to delare it as shadowed so .NET can manage the references.

>All,
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>I have several forms with similar functionality from which I want to create a parent class and from these forms subclasses of the parent class. Part of the form is an error label that I want to access from the parent class. I can include the WITHEVENTS declaration, but in the subclasses I get the same declaration and a warning that the label declaration should be SHADOWed from the parent class. Is there a way to include the declaration in the parent class without the warning in the child class?
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>TIA
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>Rex