Introduction
I started developing applications in .NET, using WinForms and ASP.NET. WinForms was a great improvement over Visual Basic 6. ASP.NET WebForms introduced a form-focused, event-driven user interface model similar to WinForms. A major difference was the way in which the user interface was defined.
Visual Studio offered WYSIWYG design support for both technologies. The key difference was that WinForms user interfaces were represented in procedural C# and ASP.NET WebForms that were built in declarative HTML. I’ve always loved the expressive nature of HTML. Even though I preferred developing user interfaces for the Web, desktop applications seemed to offer more power. I like to have complete access to the computer’s resources.
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