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ASP.NET WebForms was a tragedy of a grand scale. Its bloatedness and obfuscation of the web was truly horrific. I can say this because I am a WebForm veteran. I used it from beta in my 2nd job & even back then I found it incredibly obtuse and uninuitive, especially because I understood the stateless nature of the web and it just kinda flew in the face of that ( probably to appease VB programmers coming to the web ).

Like many people, I was also looking to get rid of all the bloat, fortunately now ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI are proper development solutions that play nicely with the web.

In fact there's alot to admire about the new ASP.NET and how it embraces the web.

My web latest app stack is now a Single Page App of HTML/CSS/JS talking to Restful Services (ASP.NET Web API), just beautiful to work with!