ASP.NET MVC users - do you miss anything from WebForms?

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Published on 2009-04-17T10:14:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 8:43 UTC
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There are lots of articles and discussions about the differences between ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.NET MVC that compare the relative merits of the two frameworks.

I have a different question for anyone who has experience using WebForms that has since moved to MVC:

What is the number one thing that WebForms had, that MVC doesn't, that you really miss?

Edit

No-one has mentioned the WebForms validation controls. I am now working on some code that has a few dependant validation rules and implementing client-side validation for these is proving slow.

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