Great Silverlight 2.0 Tutorial
April 22, 2008
Everybody who knows me knows my feelings on doing complex WebGUI. In short I think it is stupid - and also I have never met a developer yet who can show me a robust and simple way of managing the events of a web page. It is always, always fixes like; hidden fields, setting stuff in prerender etc etc.
So my personal opinion of this is - don’t do it! Web is for simple stuff. The moment a request about a tab control or thing posting back is being said I would raise a big warning flag. You’ll get into trouble. (Of course I can only speak for ASP.NET, and love to be convinced otherwise).
Luckily there is help on the way.
- You could either stick with simple HTML and use [ASP.NET MVC](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx) which removes all the crazy event-handling from the ASP.NET WebForm model. Basically...