Accessing Master Page public items

[mpoirier]

I cannot get this to work in Visual Studio 2005 with ASP.NET v2.0:

==================================================
For example, you might have a master page named MasterPage.master that is the class name MasterPage_master. You might create @ Page and @ MasterType directives that look like the following:

<%@ Page masterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master"%>

<%@ MasterType virtualPath="~/MasterPage.master"%>

When you use a @ MasterType directive, such as the one in the example, you can reference members on the master page as in the following example:

CompanyName.Text = Master.CompanyName;

==================================================

To access items in the Master Page I have to do this on every page:

NameSpace.MasterClass _master = (NameSpace.MasterClass)base.Master;

CompanyName.Text = _master.CompanyName;


Any fix for this ?

Thanks!

[mpoirier]

I just realised that the "designer" files that VS automatically creates does exactly what I was doing manually in the page itself...

NameSpace.MasterClass _master = (NameSpace.MasterClass)base.Master;

All designer pages were deleted in this older project because they created unnecessary complexity; and they still do...