web form inheritance visual studio 2005

[Billy Cormic]

Hello,
Does anyone know if we will be able to inherit web controls from
web forms in Visual Studio 2005. This has been a source of constant
frustration for me with the other versions. For example, will I be
able to put buttons on a web form named webform1 and be able to show
those buttons on a new web form named webform2 simply by inheriting
webform1 on webform2?

Thanks,
Billy

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

With master pages definitely.

 

[Scott Allen]

Not with inheritance as in using the Inherits keyword in VB.NET. As
Curt pointed out, there are other new solutions.

 

[Billy Cormic]

thanks Scott and curt. I am currently investigating master pages.

 

[Holger Flick]

With master pages definitely.

Will those be a feature of VS 2005 or will this be included in the
framework somehow (page becomes a list of subclasses or something like
that)?

 

[Scott Allen]

It will a feature of the runtime (which knows how to blend a master
page and a content page together), and the framework (which will
provide programattic access to the master page). The IDE is smart
enough to help out during design time too.