Let us about Model View Architecture and its advantages than the Web forms .Asp.Net MVC is a frame work for developing asp.net Web applications that Model View Controller Design Pattern .
Model :
Model is the part of the application that implements the data domain logic .It is responsible for data base connections and implementing business rules
Model responds to the controller request .
View :
View is the graphical data presentation i.e (User Interface ).When ever a controller request's the model , it will fetch the data and display in the appropriate View .
Controller :
The controller is the heart of the MVC .When ever a request came from the clients ,the controller accepts the request and it will invoke the model and model fetches the data from DB and send's the result to appropriate View .
In the controller the routing engine will play a major role.
MS provides two types of routing engine's
1)ASPX
2)Razor.
I prefer razor because it allows only pure html controls ,which is the main objective of MVC .
They are some third party routing engine's also available like nHaml ,Spark etc.
We can also create a custom routing engine.
I will explain in depth about the routing engine's in the coming articles .
Advantages of MVC over Webforms :
1)We have clear separation of layers that makes application maintenance very simple
2)No Asp Web server control's so,No event handlers page size will become very light
3)View state is not supported , so performance is increased
4)View Engine's supported
5)Search engine optimization is very high
6)User Interface is lightly coupled
7)Parallel Development is Possible and easy to do unit testing
Dis-advantage :
1)Since there was no support for the View state ,Developer has to write more code to maintain data in the page when an exception occurred while submitting the data .
MVC - History :
MVC-1 released in 2009
MVC-2 released in 2010
MVC-3 released in 2011
MVC-4 was released in 2012 (August)
MVC Overlaps Webforms :
We can strongly say no to this question .MVC and Web-forms both are the different approaches to develop asp.net web application .Based on our requirement we can use these architectures .
Common things in MVC and Webforms :
Since both of them are above the top of the asp.net framework , implementation of security,membership providing and caching are the common techniques .
Conclusion
We had an idea why MVC than Web-form's right . From the next article let us dig more in to Asp.Net MVC4