ASP.NET MVC Should I bother learning webforms first?
asp.net-mvc, web-applications, webforms
Solution
No, don't even look at Web Forms.
MVC is modeled much closer to how HTTP actually works, which makes it much easier to work with and to build today's web applications with client side scripts. Combining Web Forms and javascript is really a pain.
MVC is also much better in that it helps getting the server side structure right. It is possible to use a model-view-presenter (or controller) separation on Web Forms too, but it has to be ducked taped on top of Web Forms.
Finally, you will have nearly no use of any WebForms knowledge when starting with MVC. It's rather the other way around, the WebForms developers I've taught MVC have to be de-brain-washed from WebForms first ;-)
Problem
I'm about to foray into ASP.NET Web Development and I already know some of the very basics using Visual Web Developer and some of the implementations of Web Forms. However, instead of continuing to go down the Web Forms path and mastering VIEWSTATE and all of the ugliness that comes along with it, I've decided to go the MVC route. At this point, I'm wondering, should I continue to learn Web Forms and then move over to MVC? Or can MVC be learned independently without knowing a thing about Web Forms? What's my best course of action?