ASP.NET Web Forms is a part of the ASP.NET web application framework. It is one of the three different programming models you can use to create ASP.NET web applications, the others being ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Pages.
I have read above lines in asp.net site. My understanding is A web page may refer to a html document retrieved from server and A Web Form is a thing in ASP.NET Application used to generate a HTML document(in dynamic manner)
But definition of web forms said by asp.net site confused me. OK I can understand MVC is a programming model used to create ASP.NET Web application.
What is a Web Form ? and What is a Web page ?
How Web page is a programming model to create ASP.Net web application
ASP.Net is Microsoft’s technology stack for building dynamic web sites.
Within that stack, they support 3 different ways of generating a web page.
Web Forms is the oldest – it’s been around since ASP.Net was born. It’s tightly coupled into Visual Studio, and has “drag and drop” page building. Most people who care about how their HTML is constructed dislike Web Forms, because the “drag and drop” components can make it hard to generate semantic, valid HTML – though the latest version is a lot better.
ASP.Net MVC is an alternative to Web Forms – and it’s a pretty decent MVC framework.
Web Pages is another alternative; it’s more of a scripting/templating solution, similar to PHP. It doesn’t have the overhead/safetynet of a proper framework behind it (like MVC), and it uses RAZOR to support the view engine.
For any non-trivial new projects, ASP.Net MVC is the industry standard.