VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
MVC is almost ALWAYS the better solution. There is why:
- The page lifecylce is simpler and more efficient
- There is no such thing as controls besides html controls. You don’t need to debug your output to see what ASP .Net is generating.
- ViewModels give you immense power and obviate the need to do manual control binding and it eliminates many errors relating to binding.
- You can have multiple forms on a page. This was a serious limitation of WebForms.
- The web is stateless and MVC matches the architecture of the web more closely. Webforms introduces state and the bugs you have with it by introducing the ViewState. The ViewState is automatic and works in the background, so it doesn’t always behave the way you want it to.
- Web applications need to work with ajax these days. It’s not acceptable to have full page loads any more. MVC makes ajax so so much better, easier and more efficient with JQuery.
- Because you can have multiple forms on a page, and because the architecture is driven by calls to urls, you can do funky things like ajax load a different form, like an edit form into your current page using JQuery. Once you realise what this lets you do you can do amazing things easily.
- ASP.Net WebForms is not only an abstraction over html, it is an extremely complex one. Sometimes you would get a weird bug and struggle with it for much longer than need be. In many cases you could actually see what it was doing wrong but you are unable to do anything about it. You end up doing weird workarounds.
- WebForms does not make a good technology for designers. Designers often like working with html directly. In MVC it’s a view, in WebForms it’s half a day of work.
- As the web platform is evolving fast WebForms wont keep up. It’s not aware of new tags or features of HTML5, it will still render the same stuff unless you get (often) expensive 3rd party controls or wait for Microsoft to issue an update.
- Controls in WebForms limit you in so many ways. In MVC you can just grab a JQuery library and integrate it into your templates.
