ASP.NET MVC > ASP.NET WebForms, Why?

Question

I\'ve now completed my first web application using ASP.NET MVC and overall, I still am not grasping why this is getting all the praise and glory. Maybe I\'m being stubborn. I k

Answer 1

One thing (out of many) that I like about MVC is that it gets rid of Web Server Controls. While they are seen by many as a great thing about WebForms, I have found that once you get past the basic operations they become a nightmare. Trying to juggle databinding events on grids with postbacks and everything else becomes the OO version of spaghetti code.

MVC will require you have a better knowledge of the basic tenants of web development (GET, POST, REQUEST, HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT), the result will be much better. See my graph of how I think MVC works :-)

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