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MartinCron
on June 8, 2012
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The closest web app analog is (was) ASP.NET WebForms, which has pretty much been replaced by ASP.NET MVC.
recursive
on June 9, 2012
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WebForms wishes it was VB6, but sadly, the ViewState abstraction leaks complexity like a sieve for any but the most trivial case.
MartinCron
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I agree wholeheartedly. Almost all of the abstractions in WebForms are leaky, and the think that it's abstracting... HTML, isn't so complex that it benefits from being abstracted.
It was a learning process for all of us :)
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