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by MauroIksem 980 days ago
If they made an easy way for us to move from asp web forms to blazor that'd be ideal. Not bringing web forms to core is fine but without giving us an easy way to migrate to blazor is a big problem imo. There are still a ton of apps and big code bases that run on web forms.
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DaiPlusPlus 980 days ago
WebForms code cannot be ported over because WebForms' entire architecture is built around a stateful view-layer over stateless server-side code. It's fundamentally broken and incompatible with how the web works (simply look at how WebForms' PostBack system breaks the browser back button and makes it impossible to link to pages or content that can only be accessed via PostBack).

There isn't an easy way to move from WebForms to MVC because it's impossible.

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ComputerGuru 980 days ago
The sheer amount of greenfield code being written today so dwarfs all the legacy code out there (especially that under consideration for upgrade) that Microsoft has just focused full steam ahead on the former. It’s hard to disagree with the business logic there.

(Medium-term migrations from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core, was more streamlined.)

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lacrimacida 980 days ago
Yes, agree. But at the same time we could agree that microsoft left their older customers with a dead end solution costing a fortune or even imporrible to upgrade. They would be unwise to take microsoft recommendation again but corps seem to continue to do so..
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briHass 980 days ago
To be fair, WebForms is 20 years old. It requires .NET Framework, but Microsoft just released another version (4.8.1) of that last year even though they said they were done with 4.8 back in 2019. By the time it's totally dead, companies will have been able to get a quarter of a century out of that tech.

That's outright amazing compared to any of the flash-in-the-pan JS front-end technologies. If you used the original AngularJS, for example, you got 10 or so years, and that's not an entire server-side framework.

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lacrimacida 980 days ago
Yes, that’s somewhat sensible though that is true for many old tech… how many years have systems running powered by cobol by example?
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ComputerGuru 978 days ago
I’m too busy being angry at Microsoft for abandoning SWF, WPF, and UWP without providing an amazing replacement to worry about how they treated webforms.
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