ASP.NET Web Forms: The Strong Presence and Mature Experience

In existence since 2002 and still actively used, the Web Forms technology has successfully passed the harsh test of time and the rigorous demands of web developers.

Some of the key features and recognizable traits of Web Forms are the ViewState and Event-driven development. In MVC and Core, these were replaced with the concept of Model-View-Controller pattern. Now, Blazor is the newest member of the ASP.NET family and brings yet another system of implementation, actually two different ways, which will be explained in the dedicated Blazor-Hosting section. One major difference is that it can also run in ASP.NET Core, whereas Web Forms cannot.

Blazor: A Bold Experiment by Microsoft Turned Out to Be a Big Success in Web Development

Microsoft’s newest web development framework Blazor is now officially released both for its server-side and client-side flavors and ready for production use. With constantly growing community, it surely has the buzz around it. But before answering what is Blazor actually, we need to clarify couple of stepping stones which lay the foundation of this new framework.

Naming

The name Blazor comes from the following equation: Browser + Razor = Blazor.

There is another strong possibility, according to the Blazor team that, “When pronounced, it is also the name of a swanky jacket worn by hipsters that have excellent taste in fashion, style, and programming languages.”