Comments on: Choosing Between WebForms and MVC

By: The choice between WebForms and MVC

The choice between WebForms and MVC — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:54:32 +0000

[...] Translated from: http://blog.gadodia.net/choosing-between-webforms-and-mvc/ [...]

By: ASP.NET WebForms or MVC- The Reprogram

ASP.NET WebForms or MVC- The Reprogram — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:17:53 +0000

[...] First let’s take a brief look at what each has to offer (won’t go into to much detail — Vaibhav does an excellent job providing a detailed SWOT analysis Choosing between Web Forms and MVC). [...]

By: Bartek

Bartek — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:17:34 +0000

In my opinion, the question is becoming blurred with a lot of the cool features of MVC making their way into Webforms. ASP.NET 4.0 added URL Routing, reduced ViewState, and greater control of the HTML mark-up produced by many ASP.NET controls, now the next version of Webforms will incorporate many more MVC features into Webforms. http://bit.ly/dNhBd8

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:16:26 +0000

Thank you, and thank you for the link – checking it out

By: InayatSaiyed

InayatSaiyed — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:43:29 +0000

Hi Vaibhav,
Very nice article. Makes it very clear about MVC and web forms.

Interesting to checkout the following.
http://navigationnerddinner.codeplex.com/

It looks like a combination of MVC and web forms. and i feel its best of both worlds when using this navigation framework.
We can still use web forms and benefit from MVC features like UnitTesting.

By: roharrin

roharrin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:04:54 +0000

I agree. I have never known a business to just give me so much time. As per all of the WebForms issues I hear about, they are rare for me. We have one developer finishing up on a project where he used MVC 2.0 and the project will end up 2 months behind schedule and way over on hours. The last project I did came in 25% of the time that a consultant firm quoted us at and I did it in WebForms.

Another point, is finding people to maintain your programs. If everyone knows MVC than the point is moot. Unfortunately, the MVC population is much smaller than the WebForms population.

I’m also hoping Silverlight will get out there faster. Silverlight is a lot of fun.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:20:37 +0000

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:37:54 +0000

Somewhat nice article, alot of developers out there going to be pretty upset when they hear they have been prototyping apps the last 7 years. We have built a couple apps in MVC and it has some nice things about it, all this talk of reuseable UI elements is beyond belief, ever heard of an .ascx? If you are blessed with the time to write an application in MVC then that is a big factor, however in the real world, most things need to be done yesterday and WebForms and not as a prototype are the way to go. Every one keeps talking about viewstate, someone should talk about managing it because it is not that bad if you are careful and turn it off when not needed, we are not in the 14.4 32MBRam days. The choice here is easy enough, how much time do you have for a project and does the site require alot of user interaction, if time is short and alot of user interaction, then web forms, if you have time and are mainly diplaying data, then MVC… now if more people would get silverlight… then just do that, no more WC3 to worry about, awesome UI capabilities and windows app speed once the xap is loaded….

ah but the battle will rage on.

By: Renjith Maxy

Renjith Maxy — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:30:47 +0000

You have hit the nail on the head. Good article

By: samuel

samuel — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:05:51 +0000

The best presentation of both worlds that I have seen. After reading the big differences many times, it’s always nice to see a visual presentation like that.

By: Bala Sakthis

Bala Sakthis — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:53:18 +0000

Good SWOT analysis with images.

By: ASP.NET WebForms vs ASP.NET MVC, la nueva batalla - SergioTarrillo - RichWeblog

ASP.NET WebForms vs ASP.NET MVC, la nueva batalla - SergioTarrillo - RichWeblog — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:50:55 +0000

[...] Fuente del gráfico, y otro más detallado. [...]

By: ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms | TechBubbles

ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms | TechBubbles — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:16:33 +0000

[...] More about the comparison can be found here [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:43:41 +0000

Very nice charts!

I was surprised during my initial testing of MVC at how fast MVC database pages load and update. It really makes it nice for the users to work with.

By: Iain

Iain — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:45:16 +0000

I agree with Ron,
Webforms is very Unit Testable when you know how to structure a multi tired/layered app.
And if you choose to the UI layer can be unit tested with implementation of the MVP pattern.