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Funny thing is most MS devs seem to think that asp.net is on its way out.

DougWebb 11y ago
There's ASP.Net and there's ASP.Net MVC. They're very different beasts, even though the latter is/was built upon the former. ASP.Net probably is on the way out, but MVC is not.
- mreiland 11y ago
  ASP.Net is going nowhere, the abomination known as Web Controls is on the way out (and good riddance). It will never go away, there's too much code and money involved, but it won't be used for new projects.
  - aceperry 11y ago
    "but it won't be used for new projects" I would interpret that statement as: it's on the way out.
    - mreiland 11y ago
      ASP.Net is not going anywhere, perhaps you should read a little closer before you respond.
- manigandham 11y ago
  asp.net is the web framework. WebForms and MVC and WebAPI were different stacks that ran on top of asp.net to deliver different functionality. WebForms is the old school stuff and was great at what it did (which was replicate the winforms ability so desktop developers could rapidly create webapps) and serves millions of businesses today. WebForms is still being supported but now finally seems to be removed from future roadmap. MVC and WebAPI have been combined together now. The latest stack is ASP.NET MVC 6 running on top of ASP.NET 5 running on top of .NET framework 4.6
frik 11y ago
ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages will merge into a unified "ASP.NET vNext". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET
M8 11y ago
There is no real alternative to ASP.NET.
- aceperry 11y ago
  I don't know about that. A lot of companies, some of the world's largest, use non-MS technologies and seem to get by very well.
NicoJuicy 11y ago
Asp.Net 1.0 is still working on new servers. MS got compatibility covered better then any other firm :)
manigandham 11y ago
asp.net is not going anywhere, it's the name for the web focused framework of the .net stack. The layers are ASP.NET MVC 6 running on ASP.NET 5 (the web framework) running on .NET Framework 4.6 (the core libraries).

There's ASP.Net and there's ASP.Net MVC. They're very different beasts, even though the latter is/was built upon the former. ASP.Net probably is on the way out, but MVC is not.

mreiland 11y ago
ASP.Net is going nowhere, the abomination known as Web Controls is on the way out (and good riddance). It will never go away, there's too much code and money involved, but it won't be used for new projects.
- aceperry 11y ago
  "but it won't be used for new projects" I would interpret that statement as: it's on the way out.
  - mreiland 11y ago
    ASP.Net is not going anywhere, perhaps you should read a little closer before you respond.
manigandham 11y ago
asp.net is the web framework. WebForms and MVC and WebAPI were different stacks that ran on top of asp.net to deliver different functionality. WebForms is the old school stuff and was great at what it did (which was replicate the winforms ability so desktop developers could rapidly create webapps) and serves millions of businesses today. WebForms is still being supported but now finally seems to be removed from future roadmap. MVC and WebAPI have been combined together now. The latest stack is ASP.NET MVC 6 running on top of ASP.NET 5 running on top of .NET framework 4.6

frik 11y ago

ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages will merge into a unified "ASP.NET vNext". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP.NET

M8 11y ago

There is no real alternative to ASP.NET.

aceperry 11y ago
I don't know about that. A lot of companies, some of the world's largest, use non-MS technologies and seem to get by very well.

NicoJuicy 11y ago

Asp.Net 1.0 is still working on new servers. MS got compatibility covered better then any other firm :)

manigandham 11y ago

asp.net is not going anywhere, it's the name for the web focused framework of the .net stack. The layers are ASP.NET MVC 6 running on ASP.NET 5 (the web framework) running on .NET Framework 4.6 (the core libraries).