Introduction

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

Until late 2008, I was happy enough with Web Forms. I did recognize its weak points and could nicely work around them with discipline and systematic application of design principles. But a new thing called ASP.NET MVC was receiving enthusiastic reviews by a growing subset of the ASP.NET community. So I started to consider ASP.NET MVC and explore its architecture and potential while constantly trying to envision concrete business scenarios in which to employ it. I did this for about a year. Then I switched to ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET was devised in the late 1990s at a time when many companies in various industry sectors were rapidly discovering the Internet. ...

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