Does RAD for asp.net exist?

Question

I've built web sites using classic ASP, ASP.NET web forms and lately ASP.NET with ExtJS. However, I've always felt that I've had to do a lot of the heavy lifting and that there was no real RAD until the application was fairly mature.

I've only briefly looked at RoR and Django, but they look like a step in the right direction. Does anyone feel they have the equivalent mix of .net technologies for creating web sites quickly?

EDIT: I wanted to stay with mainstream tools (esp. open source or 'low cost') that work with ASP.NET. Also interested in fast framework configuration/setup, as my current project took lots of initial code (my)generation template work to get it to a RAD state.

Answer 1

You can try JQuery + ASP.NET MVC + Linq2SQL.

Is a good combination for a RAD. Or you can change linq2SQL by Subsonic

Answer 2

I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for but going by what others are posting, this is a more mature product:

http://www.ironspeed.com

Answer 3

Well, asp.net is a lot more RAD than having to program the socket interface and handle the web requests yourself. I guess it's a matter of perspective. I'm still waiting for the device that I can plug directly into my brain and out pops whatever software I can think of. THAT would be RAD. :-)

Answer 4

I use asp.net with Telerik Rad controls with jQuery and telerik's client-side api It works well for me but its open to discussion of course