Does anyone know how to prevent this incredibly irritating thing .net does when it arbitrarily sets members of a web form to Protected when I specifically set them to public? Any time I edit a webform and add a control or modify a property of a control it resets all the controls to Protected which causes the compiler to blowup.

When I set a member to Public I do it for a reason and I expect it to stay that way until I say otherwise. I am constantly having to reset members to public access. I don't want the IDE deciding for me what access settings I need in my code!