Question

AFAIK, the Asp.net Web Pages model only supports a single form post per page. The user input is taken in with:

if (isPost)
{
   // code to capture form input
}

However, is it possible to have Asp.net Web Pages behave more like Rails in allowing multiple actions (methods) per page?

I would like to be able to have a user click a button (posting to the same page) which deletes a given record in a db and then refreshes the same page.

Answer 1

Your premise that the Asp.Net Web Pages model only supports a single form post per page is incorrect. You can have multiple forms. Rather than using the simple IsPost test, you provide a different name attribute to each form’s associated submit button, and test to see which one was clicked by examining the Request.Form collection:

@{
  if(Request["form1"] == "submit"){
    //form1 submitted
  }
  if(Request["form2"] == "submit"){
    //form2 submitted
  }
}
...

<form method="post" id="form1">
  ...
  ...
  <input type="submit" name="form1" value="Submit" />
</form>

<form method="post" id="form2">
  ...
  ...
  <input type="submit" name="form2" value="Submit" />
</form>

But if you want an MVC framework, as others have said, use ASP.NET MVC.