[RESOLVED] Properties on a user control

I have a list within a user control that I've made, and I want to be able to access it from a class that instantiates the user control, but I'm getting a strange error.

User Control:

Code:

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public partial class ctlMain : UserControl
    {
        private Downloads _downloads;
        public Downloads DownloadList
        {
            get { return _downloads; }
        }
...

---

Note that Downloads is just a public collection class that I made.

Instantiating Class:

Code:

---

ctlMain _ctl = new ctlMain();
foreach (DownloadItem di in _ctl.DownloadList)
{
}

---

The error I'm getting is:
"Error 1 'System.Windows.Forms.UserControl' does not contain a definition for 'DownloadList'"

It should also be noted that this was done in c# 2005.

Have you written an explicit constructor?

Yes, I have. This is it:

Code:

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public ctlMain()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            DownloadItem di = new DownloadItem();
            di.Picture = "Picture.jpg";
            di.Title = "Picture Title";
            di.Description = "This is the description.";
            _downloads.Add(di);
            /*
            * Continues to do a few other things.           
            */
        }

---

nevermind, I solved it myself.