Ok so we all of course know of the big two frameworks built atop ASP.Net. Webforms and MVC. Are there any alternatives to these two big and Microsoft-made frameworks?
I believe that OpenRasta had something extremely lightweight which was independent from both, but I'm not sure. Is there anything else like that though?
The reason I ask this is that I've pondered on trying to create a framework independent from both Webforms and MVC and I would like to see how other people approached the problem.
FubuMVC is another popular (and active) alternative http://fubumvc.com/
There is Mono Rail, an alternative MVC framework.
And the new microsoft product/project WebMatrix seems to be based on a completely different approach (although I don't know it in detail).
check out Web Forms MVP ( http://webformsmvp.com/ )
It is an MVP framework form ASP.Net WebForms.
Indeed OpenRasta is the only of the proposed answers that can run out of asp.net quite happily, and still run on top of it if you so desire. And it is stable enough that few patches are required to the 2.0 branch before work starts on 3.0 this month.