Instance usercontrol in BaseUserControl

Dear All,


I'm working on our error handling for our projects.  We have decided that we should use BasePage, BaseMaster and BaseUserControl.


In the BasePage and BaseMaster classes I have a function which works like the following
i.e. the master would look like

protected function IsAlerted(currentPage as Page)
dim Mp as BaseMaster = currentPage.Master

end function


I want to apply the same instance to my function in the BaseUserControl, but I do not know how to instance the usercontrol
I've tried
protected function IsAlerted(currentPage as Page)
dim uc as BaseUserControl = currentPage.Controls
end function
but of course this incorrect.


Hope someone can point me into the right direction


Many thanks in advance


Zal

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