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Sunday, April 26, 2009

You should NOT use ASP.NET MVC if. . .

  • You are not very comfortable with polymorphism
  • You aren’t willing to build on top of the framework
  • You rely on 3rd party vendor controls for lots of the UI
  • You are adverse to using open-source libraries

The above are four quick reasons why WebForms may be a better for for some time to come if you are an ASP.NET developer wondering whether you should upgrade to ASP.NET MVC.  Please understand that I have switched all of my employees to this latest version of ASP.NET for all client projects.  I’m also writing a book, ASP.NET MVC in Action for Manning with two great co-authors, Ben Scheirman and Jimmy Bogard, both of which write about the framework on their respective blogs. more...