ASP.NET MVC > ASP.NET WebForms, Why?

Question

I\'ve now completed my first web application using ASP.NET MVC and overall, I still am not grasping why this is getting all the praise and glory. Maybe I\'m being stubborn. I k

Answer 1

Of course a simple example is going to be very clear and readable no matter how you do it. Supposedly, MVC's advantage becomes more apparent as you scale up the complexity.

Also, it turns out that the webforms model just isn't that great for high-volume public internet sites. ViewState plus the expensive page life cycle in a normal web forms site can make scalability a challenge (not impossible, but challenging). By contrast, on an intranet site users generally have much greater upstream bandwidth (ViewState works better) and volume is much better controlled. So webforms really works great there.