Some very kinds notes lately from folks who noticed my ever changing MSN Messenger Name.  I've indeed been ill lately, having some diabetes troubles and unusual associated vertigo.  I was literally propped up all weekend, as lying down induced horrible spinning (presumably of the room, although possibly me).  I'm getting better slowly, but still sense something's wrong. Pretty sure I'll be back in the swing again for my presentation to the Cleveland .NET Users Group next week, and certainly for PDC.  I'd hate to miss it!

In my stupor I've been continuing into the depths of ASP.NET, this week working on a (possibly) rudimentary visual inheritance with Web Forms. 

Something like this:

namespace MyNorthwindBank
{
  public class SomeWonderfulBasePage : Page
  {
      protected override void OnInit(System.EventArgs e)
      {
         this.Controls.AddAt(0, LoadControl("head.ascx"));
         base.OnInit(e);
         this.Controls.Add(LoadControl("foot.ascx"));
      }
   }
   public class SomeWonderfulBaseControl : UserControl
   {
      public new SomeWonderfulBasePage Page
      {
        get { return (SomeWonderfulBasePage )base.Page; }
      }
   }
}

I wonder if this is a valid and reasonable way to proceed, or if there's something about it that might bite me?