ASP.Net Web Forms dying a slow death?

Being a web programmer for the last 10 years, I've seen a few different paradigms come and go in the web world. Looking around today, I can't help but think that the writings are on the wall for the ASP.Net "webforms" web application model. When it debuted, it was revolutionary to have a fully typed, compiled OO framework that was virtually portable to mobile and desktop. However, since then, ASP.Net...

Silverlight – Oh no, not this again

Excuse me while I ponder for a minute, but I'm continually surprised by the absolute prostration of some of the development community at the feet of Silverlight. It's filling the .Net blogspace like crazy right now, and many control developers are already shifting focus to it (Telerik and Infragistics, to name two), citing it as the "next generation" of the web. My project manager walked out of the...