ASP.NET Web Forms vs. MVC

ASP.NET Web Forms vs. MVC Choosing the right one for web development
Harish Ranganathan
Senior Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

Agenda
Quick look into Visual Studio 2010 SP1
ASP.NET 4 Web Forms
MVC 3 with Razor
Using Web Forms and MVC together
Scenarios for usage

New in SP1 for Web Developers
IIS Express for Visual Studio 2010
SQL Compact Edition Tooling support
Web Deployment Tool 2.0
Support for HTML5 tags 

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for Web Developers
demo

ASP.NET 4 Web Forms
Easier to start, develop & deploy
Routing and Search Engine Optimization
Better Client Handling capabilities
Productivity and extensibility

ASP.NET 4 Web Forms
demo

ASP.NET MVC 3
Clear separation of concerns
Friendlier URLs
Cleaner HTML
Patterns & Repositories

ASP.NET MVC 3
demo

Visual Studio 2010
.NET 4
MVC
Web Forms
Authentication
Membership
Data Providers
ASP.NET

Web Forms + MVC
Ease of adoption in existing projects
Pages where finer markup control is needed
Best of both worlds
No from the scratch work

Web Forms + MVC
demo

Scenarios for Web Forms
Familiarity with Client Development
Lots of abstraction, automation
Mark up, Scripts, Browser differences handled
SharePoint runs on Web Forms

Scenarios for MVC
Familiar for Web Developers
Finer control over mark up
Designed for friendly URLs
Designed for patterns/respositories

Summary
Download visual Studio 2010 SP1
Use IIS Express / SQL CE as applicable for Development
Both Web Forms & MVC continue to exist!
Not one size fits all
Where cleaner markup / finer control => MVC
Where rapid development => Web Forms
Web Forms and MVC can be used together
Choice is always good 
And, there’s lots more, also not covered here.

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ASP.NET Web Forms vs. MVC

by Harish Ranganathan on Mar 29, 2011

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