ASP.NET MVC vs. WebForms - a simple question

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Published on 2010-05-24T19:57:41Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 20:01 UTC
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Hi, I'm wondering about one thing - as we know, the MVC pattern is stateless (it doesn't use the ViewState, so we use only HTML controls), but if we use them in WebForms as well, it'll become stateless too ? so, by doing this, we are getting closer to the MVC pattern ?

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