I'm basically creating a PageBasket, eg button on the page click on it and it adds that page to a Basket.

So I have on usercontrol with the "add to button" to be positioned in the content, and a second usercontrol with the addto method that this button calls.

If I register the control in the template and use a recursive FindControl to find the basket then all works find.

eg

<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="PdfBasket" Src="/usercontrols/PdfBasket.ascx" %>

 <uc1:PdfBasket ID="PdfBasket" runat="server" />

Control mySide = FindControlRecursive(this.Page, "PdfBasket");

            if (mySide != null)
            {
                PdfBasket pdfB = (PdfBasket)mySide;
                PdfBasket.AddBasketItem(1, "Mike"); // this is the add page method on the Basket
                pdfB.UpdateBasket(); // this is the update method on the Basket to show what I just added

              }

However, if I want to allow the basket to be positioned by the designer in the content and not in the template... I need to go with a usercontrol macro.

so I setting up the macro and inserted... resulting in

<umbraco:Macro Alias="PdfBasket" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>

Now if I want to take the same approach, in order to be able to find the control I need to add an id..

<umbraco:Macro Alias="PdfBasket" runat="server" id="PdfBasket"></umbraco:Macro> (I sort of assumed that the alias would result in the id being automatically created by the umbraco core, but that doesn't seem to be the case)

However now when I try to cast the found object to my PdfBasket Object.. I get an invalid castexception as it seems the maco object is an umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro object. So my question is... How do I get at my PdfBasket usercontrol object that must be residing in the umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro object???