Should I leave ASP.NET Web Forms and Move to ASP.NET Core?!

Question

Hello,

I'm ASP.NET Web Forms Developer since many years. Recently I worked with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework. I found totally change in everything between the Web Forms and .NET Core.

Essential changes for me are no Design View anymore! and no SQL Query (SqlCommand) everywhere instead Entity Framework is the popular now. The structure of the Solution files and folder completely changed. Even the famous Web.Config file is not exist anymore.

My question is, should I leave the ASP.NET Web Forms and I start to do my new projects using ASP.NET Core? It's the right step?

I read some general articles but I look up for short and direct friendly answer. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Hi @Waleed ,
I suggest you use asp.net core. As far as I think,WebForm is outdated. Currently,ASP.NET Core have very good prospects.
ASP.NET Core provides the following benefits:

• Fast - It is a lightweight, high-performance web framework.
• Integration of Modern UI Framework - ASP.NET Core support modern, a Client-side framework like AngularJs, ReactJs and React with Redux etc. ASP.NET framework supports client-side framework templates like AngularJs, ReactJs and React with Redux etc.
• Hosting - It has the ability to host on IIS, Apache, Docker or Self Hosting.
• Cross Platform - ASP.NET Core web application can run on Windows, Mac, Linux development tools.
• Support Built-In Dependency Injection - It supports built-in Dependency Injection.
• Supports Modular - It support modular HTTP request.
• Open-Source - It is an open-source and community-focused web framework.
• Side-by-side app versioning - ASP.NET Core runs on .NET Core which supports the simultaneous running of multiple versions of applications.
• A unified story for building web UI and web APIs.

Best regards,
Yijing Sun

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Answer 2

As webforms is a legacy platform, you will need to move to a new technology at some point. You might also look at a razor pages.