Ray, Here is $0.02 more for your pot. Having moved from a pure coding (ASP, VB Script, etc) web background into a company that uses .NET and web forms I can tell you that I found them to be a bit restrictive at first. Here is my take for what it is worth. Yes, the web forms are actually very useful if you simply want to display your data in a linear format using the various controls provided by .NET like DataGrids, DataLists, Repeaters, etc. Code behind pages still provide you with a large amount of programatic control over how your pages are processed, and with the ability to use C#, VB.Net, etc. you have a much more powerful language base to work with than the traditional VB Script/Java Script language base of ASP. However, it takes a bit more work to get your pages to display exactly the way you want with web forms vs. traditional ASP. If your page is more complicated than a "query and display" page then you need to start working with nesting controls within other controls and binding different tables, dataviews, etc. to the controls to create more complex pages. It can get a bit frustrating trying to find the right combination of nested controls and data binding relationships to make your page display the way you want to. It these situations I find myself longing to abandon the web forms and go back to the traditional pure coding techniques of old. Hope this helps.
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