ASP.NET: websites vs web applications

Izi · 11 Jul 2009 at 12:35

Which do you use and why?

Izi · 11 Jul 2009 at 17:41

Pho said:
Web application. I'd never actually considered using the website option, but from looking at the links below it seems much more limiting as we need to access custom classes and business logic etc within the website.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730880(VS.80).aspx#wapp_topic5
http://webproject.scottgu.com/Default.aspx
http://www.codersbarn.com/post/2008/06/ASPNET-Web-Site-versus-Web-Application-Project.aspx

However, I'm currently building a site using ASP.NET MVC instead which is in one word, brilliant.

Can you give me a little review of MVC? I can see the appeal, but I was going to wait till it was a bit more mature before I went head first in.

Izi · 11 Jul 2009 at 18:11

Cool thanks for that. So do you think you will be sticking with the MCV model for now? not going back to web apps?

Izi · 11 Jul 2009 at 18:22

Pho said:
I think so. I can do everything I normally would but much more easily. Coupled with master pages (to apply a template to the whole site) I'm sold .

I will point out that I've only been using it for a couple of weeks so the learning curve really isn't that steep and the http://asp.net/mvc articles are good.

I notice that you also know PHP. Was PHP your first programming language? I moved from Classic ASP to PHP to .NET (1 month ago) and love the whole visual studio thing, and it looks like MVC will be the solution to the annoyances in normal .net programming.