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 Support for HTML5 tags Web Deployment Tool 2.0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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