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Asked: 2026-05-14T18:32:27+00:00

I checked out MVC months ago and didn’t really get it.. but recently as

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I checked out MVC months ago and didn’t really get it.. but recently as I have become a better programmer I think it is making sense.. Here is my theory.. tell me if I got it Right

In the 90s for Microsoft Devs we had Classic ASP. This mixed VBscript and HTML on the same page. So you needed to create all the HTML yourself and mix HTML and VBScript. This was not considered Ideal. Then .NET came along and everyone liked it because it was similiar to event driven VB 6 style programming. It created this abstraction of binding data to ASP Servier controls. It made getting Enumerated data easy to get on the screen with one line.
Then recently Jquery and SOA concepts are mixed together.. Now people think.. Why create this extra layer of abstraction when I can just directly use .NET as a data provider and use jquery AJAX calls to get the data and create the HTML with it directly .. no need for the Webforms abstraction layer..

Sowe are back to creating HTML directly like we did in 1999.

So MVC is all about saying Stop pretending like WEb programming is a VB6 app! Generate HTML directly!

Am I missing anything?

So I wonder.. for you people out there using MVC… is it the sort of things that once you get used to it you never want to go back to webforms??

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  1. Editorial Team

    God, I love MVC so much I don’t even think words can capture how I feel 🙂

    From time spent developing something viewpoint, I think that MVC and WebForms are equal.

    In WebForms I would spend many hours fighting with DataGrid and other controls to do what I want and how I want it. And not to mention many many hours replacing UpdatePanels with jQuery from sites where it wasn’t a viable solution anymore (performance wise).

    In MVC I start with a blank slate and mold it to suit my needs. Need I say more?

    EDIT: I just found http://aspnetmvc.componentart.com/

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