I have given up on ASP.NET Development (for the Moment!)

I really tried hard but I found just too much not to like and with a pressing requirement to finish a website, I reverted back to php. The final straw was the lack of a user table. Since I started doing websites back in 2000, a user table was at the heart of every site I did. It's still the best way to connect users, email, login password etc. ASP.NET had some weird way with profiles, and you could write your own personalization profile code, but it made life hard. There was no easy way to search through users.

There are lots of things to like, particularly C# but I get the feeling that ASP.NET has been less than successful. Perhaps if I had worked full-time on it, I could have made more progress but I didn't and so I am finishing this project in php. Microsoft are betaing MVC (Model View Controller) code for ASP.NET and this looks very promising. It's based on the Ruby on Rails approach and I'm going to try that out. You can see more about it on the official i.e. Microsoft MVC site. I will be updating this article once I've sussed MVC.

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