2. ASP.NET Web Forms vs. MVC Choosing the right one for web development Harish Ranganathan Senior Evangelist Microsoft Corporation

3. 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

4. New in SP1 for Web Developers IIS Express for Visual Studio 2010 SQL Compact Edition Tooling support Web Deployment Tool 2.0 Support for HTML5 tags 

5. Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for Web Developers demo

6. ASP.NET 4 Web Forms Easier to start, develop & deploy Routing and Search Engine Optimization Better Client Handling capabilities Productivity and extensibility

7. ASP.NET 4 Web Forms demo

8. ASP.NET MVC 3 Clear separation of concerns Friendlier URLs Cleaner HTML Patterns & Repositories

9. ASP.NET MVC 3 demo

10. Visual Studio 2010 .NET 4 MVC Web Forms Authentication Membership Data Providers ASP.NET

11. Web Forms + MVC Ease of adoption in existing projects Pages where finer markup control is needed Best of both worlds No from the scratch work

12. Web Forms + MVC demo

13. Scenarios for Web Forms Familiarity with Client Development Lots of abstraction, automation Mark up, Scripts, Browser differences handled SharePoint runs on Web Forms

14. Scenarios for MVC Familiar for Web Developers Finer control over mark up Designed for friendly URLs Designed for patterns/respositories

15. Summary 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  And, there’s lots more, also not covered here.

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