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by TimTheTinker 402 days ago
You don't know how much easier it was at that time (at least for web developers with little prior ASP experience) to:

- write a simple web service in C# on top of ASP.NET MVC v1

- build a web frontend on top of it using Prototype.js (or jQuery) and a library of components like ExtJS