I don't think I'm using WebForms. If so, then so far I'm not doing anything clunky. E.g., I'm not using anything like a calendar control. > presenting me with

I don't think I'm using WebForms. If so, then so far I'm not doing anything clunky. E.g., I'm not using anything like a calendar control. > presenting me with hundreds of different knobs about which I don't want to learn I certainly haven't been using lots of such knobs. Nearly everything I do in VB.NET and ASP.NET is obviously quite close to really simple HTML and CSS. As far as I can tell, C# and VB.NET are equivalent ways, different essentially only in syntactic sugar, to get to the basic .NET classes and common language runtime (CLR). C# seems to want to borrow from the especially succinct syntax of C/C++ which I don't like. I prefer the more verbose syntax from the history of Fortran, Basic, PL/I, etc.