Yes, I see your point and this may be possible, but I feel uneasy about trying to access a property that doesn't show up in Intellisence ( in this case a protected property ) since it may violate encapsulation or something similar, and thus might break in later releases/versions.

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>Even though the ViewState collection does not show in intellisense you may want to try to access it anyway. The only reason I suggest that is that certain methods do not show in the intellisense of VB.net (ex: RegisterStartupScript) even though they are part of the page object and accessible.
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>Hope that helps...