I worked with .NET as well around the same time, and in my opinion it never quite achieved the same level of integration as WebObjects. It also had quite a hig

I worked with .NET as well around the same time, and in my opinion it never quite achieved the same level of integration as WebObjects. It also had quite a high price-of-entry until Visual Studio Express editions were released in 2005. I don't have any experience with modern .NET/MVC specifically but modern approaches in general shy away from the decisions that made WebObjects so good because they do tend to hit nasty scalability limits.