Inheritance and Shared Variables questions.

I have defined a Parent Class called "AdobeLiveCycleForm".
All such forms have some common properties, and they only need to be visible inside the class and related subclasses. The properties are defined in AdobeLiveCycleForm as follows:
 
Protected Shared conTemplatePDFURL As String = String.Empty Protected Shared mTemplatePDFURL As String Protected Shared mSubmitPDFToURL As String = String.Empty Protected Shared conSubmitPDFToURL As String Protected Shared mSaveFormToFilePath As String = String.Empty Protected Shared conSaveFormToFilePath As String
 
If the variable is started with "con" then it means it is AppSeetings key defiend in web.config.
We must load the above config values in the parent class AdobeLiveCycleForm  as follows:
 
Protected Sub LoadC ...