MasterPage Property Woes
For some reason I'm not able to access public properties that I declare in a MasterPage, even though it is supposed to work. So, I discovered a way around it was to use FindControl. The example below demonstrates accessing a Literal control with an ID of litText in a MasterPage file.
VB.NET
Dim lit As Literal
lit = Me.Master.FindControl("litText")
C#
Literal lit;
lit = (Literal)this.Master.FindControl("litText");
