If you want to build a Web application quickly, do it with ASP.NET Web Forms. However, you have to be willing to give up a lot: client-side coding and Ajax is more awkward in Web Forms than MVC, you ...

MVC on the other hand is pretty lightweight and lends itself very well to the newer ways of building web apps, with a whole lot of javascript and AJAX. You don't get the familiarity of dropping a ...