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Re:You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch by douche on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:53PM (#12427501)

WebForms can die in a fire, and thankfully has, for the most part, but WinForms is still plenty good enough for cranking out quick and dirty tools. Maybe I'm old, or it's just because I started out in high school doing VB6 forms applications, but I still prefer it unless I have a good reason, over WPF.

WinForms is also a pretty thin layer over Win32 controls, as well, so if you have to switch between .Net and native C/C++ Windows dev, it's less of a context switch.

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Re:You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch by themartorana on Monday September 05, 2016 @01:24AM (#12428304)

WebForms changed the game. ASP was a sub-subset of VB, but WebForms with C# made websites full-scale eventful and stateful programs for the first time. I had never felt such power and freedom programming for the web.

Yes, some people would put humongous data structures in view state, and yes, more-better solutions have arisen, but WebForms deserves your respect!

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Re:You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch by robin_reala on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:12AM (#12428857)

It really doesn’t. I’ve never seen a good WebForms site / app and I’ve always dreaded working with them. They were a regressive step.

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Re:You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch by insulanian on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:49AM (#12428974)

If you worked long enough with WebForms, then you'd know what an inefficient, slow and complicated event-hairball it is.

I curse every time I have to go back to any old WebForms-based project to do some changes.

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Re:You’re How Old? We’ll Be in Touch by flukus on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:48PM (#12433201)

> WebForms with C# made websites full-scale eventful and stateful programs for the first time.

And that is why it can go die in a fire!

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