Am I missing something in the documentation or what? I want to have a base web form with a couple of standard controls. I can drop the controls on the base form and set another form to inherit from the base form.

public class frmMain : frmBaseDEForm


With no code behind the controls on the frmBaseDEForm, frmMain is displayed but none of the controls are visible. I attempt to set the controls' visible property to true in the load of frmMain and I get error about null reference. It is like the error I get when there is code behind the controls on frmBaseDEForm.

Ideas of waht I am doing wrong?