Microsoft has done some good work in the last couple of years at making their tools suck a lot less for web development. ASP.NET MVC, a newer framework with a R

Microsoft has done some good work in the last couple of years at making their tools suck a lot less for web development. ASP.NET MVC, a newer framework with a Rails-like approach, is also coming along nicely. Honestly, the main reason most ASP.NET websites suck so badly is that the Microsoft tries to make its tools accessible to developers who don't want to bother to learn and use web standards, and when used by the standards-oblivious, the resulting web apps are generally very poor in the standards compliance department.