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Ok, I need some help from the CP community. My place of work has some old school developers who are very proficient at building websites with classic ASP and VB COM+.

Different departments at work have been working with ASP.NET and C# for a while now, however, some of those old school developers are still of the opinion that:

- ASP.NET (controls, user controls, etc.) are bloated
- under the hood, ASP.NET is merely concatenating HTML strings to write to the browser anyway
- implementing our own engine that "writes" simple HTML to the browser is bound to perform better than the ASP.NET controls (less bloat, etc.)
- using C# to write HTML strings to the browser is a good step upward, because it gets us away from vbscript and COM DLL hell


I would like to build an argument for the contrary, but I am certainly willing to hear comments from both sides of the fence.

A few arguments that I can think of off the top of my head might be:

- ASP.NET is fine for so many other enterprise level sites, why are we special?
- how maintainable would the codebase be if we are writing out HTML strings?
- user controls are not perfect for use everywhere, but they definitely do have some advantages (code maintainability)
- how long would it take to get a newly hired ASP.NET developer "up to speed" with our methods if we implement our own thing?
- if the only real thing you are going to change about the development infrastructure is the language to C#, then is there really any point?

I'm looking for thoughts and opinions. I don't want to be a MS evangelist, but given the options we are comparing, it seems clear to me that true, typical ASP.NET development is the way to go, but I'd appreciate hearing some additional arguments.

Thanks.


[EDIT]
I would like to clarify that while the methods they plan to use are not adopting typical ASP.NET, they are also not proposing the other extreme of a C# page full of Response.Write commands. They would make use of some proper classes/objects to support the creation of HTML strings in a more structured way than true vbscript. In the end, it would probably wind up being a hybrid of decent C# OOP and vbscript style "string writing".


-- modified at 17:04 Tuesday 5th December, 2006
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