Just wanted to say a quick thanks here for passing on the coupon. I would have completely understood if you decided to hold onto it, given the volume of entries.

I think you've hit the nail on the head in both regards. I first put Hacksaw up on Codeplex in April of 2007 and at the time I think the bulk of projects out there were libraries, user controls, and winforms apps. I think Hacksaw has been simple enough that I didn't have to worry about the web.config issues. If things were more complex, there would definitely be concerns about pushing it up.

But maybe it is a sign of the times. I agree that Webforms does seem to be dedicated more to the internal side of things (where I've been working for 8 years now), but this also opens the door to helping show some of my colleagues what's out there and what we can do with what .Net offers.

Many thanks again! I'll let ya know when Hacksaw makes the conversion to MVC.

I'm a contributor on the Umbraco CMS which is one of the primary ASP.NET CMS platforms (and is open source web forms), but I wasn't familiar with your website/ blog (but consider yourself +1 subscriber ).
If I had been I'd have submitted as well, as you'd put out a great offer.

But I do think that Web Forms doesn't have the OS following that MVC is gaining. Web Forms isn't perceived as sexy, not in the way that MVC is.

I believe quite strongly in web forms, it's where I make a living at the moment. And I believe it can be sexy, which is why I'm a big fan of WebForms MVP, and an running the Contrib project for it.

I'd take up your Tekpub offer if it was on the table still, but most importantly I wanted to put it out there that there are other OS Web Forms developers

Also Twitter Tools for WordPress is great. Use that with some choice hashtags to get picked up by the Twitter RT bots (I do that with SharePoint all the time) and you'll extend your reach even further.