How many times have you written something like this? 1: public string MyStringProperty 2: { 3: get 4: { 5: object s = ViewState["MyStringProperty"]; 6: if( s == null ) 7: { 8: s = "MyDefaultValue"; 9: } 10: return (String)s; 11: } 12: set { ViewState["MyStringProperty"] = value; } 13: } 14: 15: public bool MyBooleanProperty 16: { 17: get 18: { 19: object b = ViewState["MyBooleanPropert... 20: if( b == null ) 21: { 22: b = true; 23: } 24: return (bool)b; 25: } 26: set { ViewState["MyBooleanProperty"] ......