How to create smart controls for a variety of related objects

Question

Hello,

Suppose I have the following model (generic example):

1. Person (base class)
2. Student (derived)
3. Teacher (derived)
4. Secretary (derived)

There are some common fields, such as first name, last name, phone nr., but several fields unique to each derived type (Student, Teacher, Secretary).

I would like to be able to display each type on a single page - say PersonDetails?

What would be the best way to approach this? My thoughts where to create a control for each type and a case-like structure in the parent page where you load the corresponding control.

While this works, I foresee problems with this route if you start adding a lot of types. Say tomorrow you add 10 types - your case will expand and you'll need to create 10 more controls. This clearly isn't a good idea nor is it efficient. Not to mention if you have several more pages, you'll need to start creating controls for those as well.

I was thinking more of working with a base class and have the control interpret the type - although this creates a huge switch case where you'll create labels and the like according to properties; doesn't seem very good either...

Does anyone know of a better way?

Thanks in advance.