By software engineering standards, ASP.NET Web Forms can be considered old school. Perhaps I’m aging myself with that statement, but its true. From a software perspective, even 10 years begins to show its age. I started to use Web Forms the year after they were introduced by Microsoft in 2003.

Most of my college years were spent in Web Forms and around 80% of my professional career has revolved around them as well. Needless to say, I have a history. And I enjoy it for the most part. That’s not something that I typically say about frameworks. I have also used ASP.NET MVC 5 heavily, but I can’t quite say that I enjoy doing so. I’ve used React as well, and it gets the job done, but again, I wouldn’t say that I enjoy working with it. Web Forms are different though.

It’s like how someone driving an electric car today, can still appreciate the sound of a 1969 Shelby engine. It’s because it’s well built, pretty powerful and it brings a certain level of nostalgia to software development. But there’s alot more to like as well.

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