Form POST in ASP.NET

Question

I'm trying to convert a classic ASP page to ASP.NET 3.5. The page has several forms on it for several different things.

In ASP.NET, there's a server form control wrapping the entire page, and form controls don't work within a server form control, and you can't have more than one server form control on a page.

So in order to keep this functionality, I can either:

• Remove the server form control that's wrapping the page, and leaving the html forms on the page.
• Create button click events for every form and perform the POST in the code-behind.

What's the preferred method here?

Answer 1

I wonder if converting to vanilla asp.net (aka webforms) is a bad idea here. Personally I'd go to MVC instead - allows multiple forms etc, and the views are much closer to he HTML, a lot like ASP.

I guess I'm saying there are some glitches vanilla asp.net introduces that you don't have to suffer.

Answer 2

I would go with the second option, any button click is going to post the whole page back anyway so you're not saving any bandwidth. Simply handle each button appropriately.