Asp.Net MVC vs Castle MonoRail

Question

I\'ve some experiences on build application with Asp.Net, but now MVC frameworks become more popular. I would like to try building new multilingual web application using with As

Answer 1

Apart from perceived popularity and support from Microsoft, ASP.NET MVC still lacks some core features that Monorail has had for a long time like controller organization (Areas), native ViewComponents and Filters that can use IoC to name the most important ones.

I have some big applications that use all of these features and I've had a hard time porting them to ASP.NET MVC.

I have worked with Monorail for some years now and while MVC looks promising and it's flexibility is awesome, I still find it akward that for every other thing I try to do, turns out it isn't there and I have to either plug a little piece of MvcContrib, another piece of SharpArchitecture, build it myself, you get the picture. Monorail is so much easier to work with (right now, that is).

I expect things will get better in the next few of months as some proposed solutions will begin to rise against others and become more mainstream. Hey, diversity of options is good but trust me, you don't want to be in Java-land 3 years ago where there were so many web frameworks that you could build your site using one for every different page!

In the meantime I will keep slowly porting my MR apps to MVC, just in case.