Advantages
of Web Forms
1)
ViewState - A
ViewState that allows you to persist objects and values throughout your
application.
2)
Rapid Application
Development - Very little learning curve,
user-friendly and easy to get an application up and running quickly.
3)
Controls and Toolbox
- A huge Toolbox with basically any major Control that you
would need for developing applications.
4)
Maturity - Web
Forms have been around over 10 years so there are a lot of communities and
resources available and many bugs and issues have been addressed.
5)
Code Generation
- Web Forms makes it quite a bit easier to not worry about
wiring up different events and methods as much of this can be handled
automatically.
6)
Familarity - Developers
coming from a Windows Forms background will find themselves very familar with
Web Forms and can easily jump into development.
Advantages
of MVC (both MVC3 and MVC4)
1)
Separation of
Concerns - The MVC Paradigm of
Model-View-Controller allows you to more easily separate all of your concerns
within your application. This can lead to improved scalability within
applications.
2) Testing - MVC
is designed and built for Testing-Driven Development and allows for applications
to be very easily tested to help secure against error and unexpected behavior.
3)
Integration with
Client-Side Tools - The MVC pattern easily allows
client-side tools such as jQuery to be seamlessly integrated. This can allow
you to create very rich user interfaces for your applications.
4)
Statelessness - Although
one of the main advantages of Web Forms, this allows you to adhere to a more
stateless format consistent with the rest of the web.
5) Control and
Flexibility - MVC allows developers to have
complete control over their applications as the developer doesn't rely on
Controls to automatically generate the appropriate HTML, which after switching
to MVC can often be seen as "bloated". The developer will write their
own HTML instead of having it generated for them.
6)
Search Engine
Optimization - The use of RESTful URLs within MVC
makes it friendlier for being accessed through search engines.