Most of the time it is enough to add controls to the page and read out the clientid to get the correct ID, but sometimes thats undoable, well here a good 'trick' to get arround that. great tip of Rick Strahl (why didnt I come up with that? ;-) )

///

/// Override to force simple IDs all around
///

public override string UniqueID
{
get
{
return this.ID;
}
}
///

/// Override to force simple IDs all around
///

public override string ClientID
{
get
{
return this.ID;
}
}

!!! dont burn yourself read comment by Wilco Bauwer:

http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/Default.aspx >> IDOverride