<p>I'm thinking about how to do this, but I have several different shapes of Data in my Database, Articles, NewsItems, etc.  </p>

<p>They All have something in common, they all have IDs (in the DB they're named ArticleID, NewsID etc. )</p>

<p>They all have a <strong>Title</strong></p>

<p>They all have <strong>BodyText</strong>.</p>

<p>They all have a <strong>Status</strong></p>

<p>They all have a <strong>DateAdded</strong></p>

<p>What I'd like to do is standard class inheritance.</p>

<p>I'd like a Master Class (I don't need to write this to the database) called <strong>Content</strong> with fields like:</p>

<ul>
<li>ID</li>
<li>Title</li>
<li>SubTitle</li>
<li>BodyText</li>
<li>Status</li>
<li>AddedDate</li>
</ul>

<p>I'm not sure how I can do this with the ORM. Why I want this is because then I can pass a list of COntent to my UserControl which is responsible for Rendering it.  It will only need the information that is common to all objects.</p>

<p>Is this even possible?</p>

I'm not sure whether you're talking about LINQ to SQL, but there are a few resources online about how to create inheritance with it:
LINQ To SQL Discriminator Column Example - Inheritance Mapping Tutorial
Inheritance in LINQ to SQL Screencast
...and more.
HTH