mvc-3 vs webform

ASP.NET Web Forms vs. MVC Choosing the right one for web development

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

MembershipData

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

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

Summary

1) MVC 3 application in VS 20102) NPD Application

So, which one to select?

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