trend towards MVC as opposed to web forms in ASP.net?

Question

I know there will always be uses for both methodologies, but to those who work various contract jobs or attend conferences, do you see a trend towards MVC as being the preference for most ASP.net development. I understand this will involve lots of opinion on if you prefer one method to the other, but was curious.

Thanks for insight you might have

I apologize if this question is out of scope for the discussion. I didn't think about that when I asked it to begin with. I'm doing some dev in both and was trying to get a better idea of direction to take. No worries then if this question is deleted or just dies.

Answer 1

Some people enjoy challenges, and Webforms can be very challenging for large scale applications. ;)

Some people prefer to take the path of least resistance. MVC can often times be that.

Yes, it's new. And as such, there's a certain amount of "oooh, shiny" mentality, but MVC really does bring a lot to the table that Webforms makes more difficult. Webforms, however, still has the drag and drop features that many people crave.

Answer 2

I havn't been in the industry for very long, but from what I have noticed everyone seem to prefer MVC and all new projects we start are built using MVC3 :)