I made a fromshell.  Its a class that inherits from CompositeControl.  This is how I use my class:

<custom:FormShell ID="asdf" Header="My Form Shell" runat="server">
       <custom:Item runat="server">
            <p>This is the content of the form.</p>
            <p>Can put any HTML or ASP controls here</p>
       </custom:Item>
</custom:FormShell>

This is what it renders:

The problem is, I want to be able to use my window with this code:

<custom:FormShell ID="asdf" Header="My Form Shell" runat="server">
       <p>This is the content of the form.</p>
       <p>Can put any HTML or ASP controls here</p>
</custom:FormShell> 

//e.i. This class does not use the Item class.
//Content goes directly into the FormShell (as opposed to the example above that I am currently using)

My Question is, How can I get access to the item inner controls and html of my form in code behind, without putting it in a Item class first. Here is my FormShell.cs which hold the Item class and FormShell Class:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace myControls
{
    //Item class that will hold the stuff to render in the formshell (this is what I want to get rid of)
    public class Item : Control { }

    [ParseChildren(true, "Items")]
    public class FormShell : CompositeControl
    {
        protected const int SIDE_CELL_WIDTH = 30;
        protected const string BACKGROUND_COLOR = "#d3d3d3";
        protected const string HEADER_BACKGROUND_IMAGE = "url('http://www.marcrenaud.net/_static/_other/greypopup/MiddleUp.png')";
        protected string[] CORNER_IMAGE = new string[4] 
        { 
            "http://www.marcrenaud.net/_static/_other/greypopup/CornerUpLeft.png", 
            "http://www.marcrenaud.net/_static/_other/greypopup/CornerUpRight2.png", 
            "http://www.marcrenaud.net/_static/_other/greypopup/CornerDownLeft.png",  
            "http://www.marcrenaud.net/_static/_other/greypopup/CornerDownRight.png" 
        };

        //List of item classes (I want to get rid of this)
        private ArrayList m_items = new ArrayList();
        
        protected Table m_table = new Table();
        protected TableRow[] m_row = new TableRow[3];
        protected TableCell[,] m_cell = new TableCell[3, 3];
        protected Label m_header = new Label();

        /////////////////////////////// Look at this code /////////////////////////////////   
        protected void AddContent()
        {
            //I want to get rid of the Items class.  Right now, i only figured out how to
            //Put content into my Form Shell class via Item class.
            //Is there something similar to this.controls.childrenDeclaredOnPresentationPage or something ?            
            m_cell[1, 1].Controls.Add((Control)m_items[0]);
        }

        [Browsable(false)]
        public ArrayList Items
        {
            get { return m_items; }
        }
        //////////////////////////////////Look at this code end//////////////////////////////
        
        protected override void CreateChildControls()
        {
            InitializeTable();
            InitializeControlStructure();
            InitializeTableStyles();
            InitializeCorners();
            InitializeCssStyles();

            AddContent();
            this.Controls.Add(m_table);

        }

        protected void InitializeTable()
        {
            //Init the rows and cells
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                m_row[i] = new TableRow();

                for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
                {
                    m_cell[i, j] = new TableCell();
                }
            }
        }

        protected void InitializeControlStructure()
        {
            m_header.Text = Header;
            m_cell[0, 1].Controls.Add(m_header);

            m_table.Controls.Add(m_row[0]);
            m_table.Controls.Add(m_row[1]);
            m_table.Controls.Add(m_row[2]);

            m_row[0].Controls.Add(m_cell[0, 0]);
            m_row[0].Controls.Add(m_cell[0, 1]);
            m_row[0].Controls.Add(m_cell[0, 2]);

            m_row[1].Controls.Add(m_cell[1, 0]);
            m_row[1].Controls.Add(m_cell[1, 1]);
            m_row[1].Controls.Add(m_cell[1, 2]);

            m_row[2].Controls.Add(m_cell[2, 0]);
            m_row[2].Controls.Add(m_cell[2, 1]);
            m_row[2].Controls.Add(m_cell[2, 2]);            
        }

        protected void InitializeTableStyles()
        {
            m_table.CellPadding = 0;
            m_table.CellSpacing = 0;

            m_cell[0, 0].Width = SIDE_CELL_WIDTH;
            m_cell[0, 2].Width = SIDE_CELL_WIDTH;
            m_cell[1, 0].Width = SIDE_CELL_WIDTH;
            m_cell[1, 2].Width = SIDE_CELL_WIDTH;
            m_cell[2, 0].Width = SIDE_CELL_WIDTH;
            m_cell[2, 2].Width = SIDE_CELL_WIDTH;

            m_cell[1, 0].BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(BACKGROUND_COLOR);
            m_cell[1, 1].BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(BACKGROUND_COLOR);
            m_cell[1, 2].BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(BACKGROUND_COLOR);
            m_cell[2, 1].BackColor = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(BACKGROUND_COLOR);            
        }

        protected void InitializeCorners()
        {
            Image[] corner = new Image[4];

            for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
            {
                corner[i] = new Image();
                corner[i].GenerateEmptyAlternateText = true;
                corner[i].ImageUrl = CORNER_IMAGE[i];
            }

            m_cell[0, 0].Controls.Add(corner[0]);
            m_cell[0, 2].Controls.Add(corner[1]);
            m_cell[2, 0].Controls.Add(corner[2]);
            m_cell[2, 2].Controls.Add(corner[3]);
        }

        protected void InitializeCssStyles()
        {
            //Initialize the table
            m_table.Style["font-family"] = "Arial";

            //Initialize the header
            m_cell[0, 1].Style["background-image"] = HEADER_BACKGROUND_IMAGE;
            m_cell[0, 1].Style["color"] = "White";
            m_cell[0, 1].Style["text-align"] = "center";            
            m_cell[0, 1].Style["font-weight"] = "bold";
            m_cell[0, 1].Style["font-size"] = "16px";            

            //Initialize the content area
            m_cell[1, 1].Style["font-size"] = "14px";            
        }

        public string Header
        {
            get;
            set;
        }
        
        

        

    }
}