A Base page in ASP.NET

Question

Do you recommend from every web site created in Visual Studio, that you should create a Base page that serves as the parent class?

What are the exact benefits/drawbacks?

Answer 1

If you need common functionality on all your pages that belongs to the page class, create a common base class.

If you don't need such common functionality on all your pages, don't create a common base class.

If you can't decide, having a base class isn't going to hurt anybody, so you might as well have one (I'd say you more often end up needing some common functionality than not)