Having successfully saved module settings in the settings.ascx module control, how do I retrieve those settings in the view control? The ModuleSettingsBase class doesn't appear to be available from the view control (probably because they both inherit from the same PortalModuleBase class. There must be a simple way to retrieve this setting from the view control though. What am I missing?

russ...

PortalModuleBase from which your module controls will inherit provides the read only public property Settings which is a hashtable keyed by the setting name. An individual setting may be retrieved and cast or converted to its appropriate type as follows:

Dim PageSize As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(Me.Settings("PageSize"))
Dim EnableModeration As Boolean = Convert.ToBoolean(Me.Settings("EnableModeration"))

When I have more than a couple of module settings, I prefere to define a configuration class which loads all of the appropriate settings either in the module's Page_Load event handler or on demand and makes them available as public properties.  Also, to more easily manage type casting and provide default values in case the particular module setting key does not exist, my Utilities class defines a number of overloaded GetValue functions, one for each data type. For example, for the boolean:

Public Overloads Shared Function GetValue(ByVal setting As Object, ByVal defaultvalue As Boolean) As Boolean
    If setting Is Nothing Then
          Return defaultvalue
    Else
          Return Convert.ToBoolean(setting)
    End If
End Function

Obtaining  a module setting then becomes (in the configuration class):

Dim _EnableModeration As Boolean
_EnableModeration = Utilities.GetValue(Settings("EnableModeration"), False)

Public Property EnableModeration() As Boolean
   Get
     Return _EnableModeration
   End Get
   Set (ByVal value As Boolean)
     _EnableModeration = value
   End Set
End Property