Biggest advantage to using ASP.Net MVC vs web forms

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user18931 picture user18931 · Sep 19, 2008 · Viewed 275.8k times · Source

What are some of the advantages of using one over the other?

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cvs picture cvs · Sep 22, 2008

The main advantages of ASP.net MVC are:

  1. Enables the full control over the rendered HTML.

  2. Provides clean separation of concerns(SoC).

  3. Enables Test Driven Development (TDD).

  4. Easy integration with JavaScript frameworks.

  5. Following the design of stateless nature of the web.

  6. RESTful urls that enables SEO.

  7. No ViewState and PostBack events

The main advantage of ASP.net Web Form are:

  1. It provides RAD development

  2. Easy development model for developers those coming from winform development.

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