One ASP.NET, the vision materialized in Visual Studio 2013

Now that Visual Studio 2013 is here, it's an interesting time for ASP.NET web developers: no more are there separate ASP.NET application templates, but one single project template that supports them all: Web Forms, MVC, Dynamic Data and Razor. The vision is this: since each of these technologies has its own pros and cons, the question becomes: why not create an equality of all these technologies, so that they all can be chosen no matter which one you prefer?

Shortly put, with the "One ASP.NET" vision, there's no more need for the argument of whether MVC is better than Web Forms, or vice versa. In fact, it's great to see this vision materialize with Visual Studio 2013.

Oh, in case you need the old project types for backward compatibility, they are still there in the New Project window. You just need to select the node "Visual Studio 2012", and it should look pretty familiar to anybody using ASP.NET previously.

Happy hacking!