Back to ASP.NET WebForms (Sigh..)
ProMesh is too immature at this point to complete the project I am working on. I think given a few weeks or months this framework will be top notch.
Right now however I am constantly getting the latest version to get around some bug only to discover another bug. I don't want to come across as negative about ProMesh.Net, again I think it will be one of the best frameworks out there once its matured a bit.
-- Update --Again, to make it clear I think ProMesh is a good framework. I have released a small project with it and it workds great. My problems are with the validation scheme that changed and a looming deadline. I am still using it for other projects. My rants below are about me screwing around too much and finding myself short on time and having to use WebForms.
-- End Update --
Back to the present, I need to get work done. I have spent a little too much time playing with ProMesh and some various other languages and frameworks. I neeed to get some work done. So I'm back to ASP.NET WebForms.
It's telling how poor WebForms are as I can barely get a simple form working correctly. Control postbacks and the whole business is absolutely frustrating. I want to make a form that changes which controls are displayed based on the value in a drop down box. Simple right? Wrong. I'm once again battling the stupid page lifecycle. Is this really the best we have?
I'm looking forward to seeing Microsoft's MVC for ASP.NET. I hope that takes .NET web development in the right direction.
Many people compare WebForms to WinForms. Something about WEbForms being VB6 on the web. Well I can tell you VB6 was never this unecessarily complicated. Good grief.
I think it's a bad sign when you spend 80 percent of your development time working around your framework instead of with it.
