>>Hold on a sec, correct me if I'm wrong. <
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>OK, you're wrong. <g>
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>If I put the following in the Click EventHandler of MyButton:
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>MessageBox.Show(this.MyButton.Parent.ToString());
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>it will display the container that the button is contained in, be it a form, a UserControl, a GroupBox, whatever. It does not display the Button class that MyButton is derived from.
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>This is in WinForms ... now, granted, I haven't done a lot in WebForms but I'm pretty sure that it works the same in WebForms.
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>~~Bonnie

It is the same in Web Forms. In the true spirit of encapsulation, there is no way to reference a derived class' base class outside of the class declaration. When dealing with an object in a container (like a Page), the only interface with the base class is through Public, Protected and Friend properties and methods.