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Asp.net webapi is quite good, I have to say!

• untog 14y ago
  I haven't had a chance to look at it, but have heard good things. The sad thing is that even ASP.NET MVC- which is 100x better than WebForms- is used 0.001 as much. The same fate may apply to the Web API. It just doesn't seem like there is much interest.
  • shaydoc 14y ago
    I have built a html5 client of pure html5 + css + js and I am currently using asp.net webapi for the purely RESTful serverside, its great, its so clean decoupled and composable... i would have thought ASP.NET MVC is quite mainstream and that webforms is slowly dying personally... now with webapi and a pure html client, i see no point in MVC whatsoever!
  • glhaynes 14y ago
    Interesting — I've gotten the opposite sense anecdotally: that MVC has become basically "the way" to do ASP.NET these days.
    • untog 14y ago
      I think the reality is as jinushaun has said it- there's a ton of legacy apps, and new development is in technologies other than ASP.NET.
  • jinushaun 14y ago
    I don't think it's a matter of interest. My guess if that the WebForms stuff is all legacy intranet crap some more schmo has to support, and everyone else has long moved onto PHP, Ruby and Python. With MVC and API, MS can't be blamed for not trying.