title: Accessing a master page public variable from user control
body: <pre><code>public partial class MasterPages_Main : System.Web.UI.MasterPage
  {
      public LoggedInUser ThisUser;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is in my master page, and my user control is running on the page.  In my user control however, I can't seem to reference <code>ThisUser</code>, do I <em>have</em> to pass it in to the control as a parameter?  Is there any way to directly reference it?</p>