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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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