There's ASP.Net and there's ASP.Net MVC. They're very different beasts, even tho...

mreiland · on April 29, 2015

ASP.Net is going nowhere, the abomination known as Web Controls is on the way out (and good riddance).

It will never go away, there's too much code and money involved, but it won't be used for new projects.

aceperry · on April 30, 2015

"but it won't be used for new projects"

I would interpret that statement as: it's on the way out.

mreiland · on April 30, 2015

ASP.Net is not going anywhere, perhaps you should read a little closer before you respond.

manigandham · on April 30, 2015

asp.net is the web framework.

WebForms and MVC and WebAPI were different stacks that ran on top of asp.net to deliver different functionality. WebForms is the old school stuff and was great at what it did (which was replicate the winforms ability so desktop developers could rapidly create webapps) and serves millions of businesses today.

WebForms is still being supported but now finally seems to be removed from future roadmap. MVC and WebAPI have been combined together now. The latest stack is ASP.NET MVC 6 running on top of ASP.NET 5 running on top of .NET framework 4.6