What's your choice for your next ASP.NET proje

Question

Let's say that you will start a new ASP.NET web site/application tomorrow. Would you chose Web Forms or MVC, and why?

Answer 1

MVC FTW!, Reasons?

• Total Control over my HTML
• No Web Forms magic
• No complex page life-cycles
• Closer to the metal
• It is the natural thing to use with HTTP

Answer 2

I would like to be doing ASP.Net MVC, even though I'm still very new to MVC. But it's not to be in the foreseeable future.

Answer 3

I would choose Webforms for local/intranet applications with rich business logic and MVC for public/internet site (blogs/forums/presentations/simple services). "WebForms application model" is preferable in areas where rich state support is critical

Answer 4

In ASP.NET MVC you sacrifice your controls toolbox, URL routing is already in ASP.NET (web forms)

So I would stick with ASP.NET web forms ( I'm not saying that MVC isn't good.)

jQuery, do you think the IT folks will let you use it?

Answer 5

I would like to go with MVC. I always seam to be fighting the abstraction when I work with WebForms.

To use WebForms effectively you actually need to know more about how the web works than if you use something like PHP. I find myself using <asp:Literal instead of <asp:Label to avoid putting a <span> around the text and running labs to figure out the order of events, etc.

Answer 6

I wait for MVC on .net for a long time. I think more than 90% people will choose MVC rather than webform.