Recently I needed to access a control in the master file of a page. Pretty simple but took a little investigation and experimentation. I was looking for a control in the footer and in the actual application fetch contact information relavant to the current context. If Me.Form.Parent IsNot Nothing Then Dim olbl As Label = Me.Form.Parent.FindControl(... ' If olbl IsNot Nothing Then olbl.Text = "Set to what you want, will probably be something dynamically generated or fetched from a database!" ......