New .NET 3.5 website setup

If you could start over, what would you do/use?

[mattglet]

So, I have the ability to take our current website and essentially "start over" from a .NET architecture standpoint. If you could do the same, what lessons you now know would you apply? This is a "big" website, as far as lines of code, pages, whatever.

Please remember, this is a .NET 3.5 architecture change... not related to SEO or anything like that. To get a picture of what I'm dealing with, open Visual Studio 2008 and click File --> New --> Project (we compile our Data Access and Business Logic into their own dlls, and treat them as separate projects within the solution).

Any frameworks you would install, MVC vs. web forms, config setup, build setup, etc.

[Ocean10000]

Before going to deep. I would think about what you need to accomplish and see which options would allow you to meet those goals. Then next see of the options which would meet them weather your in house staff could do it and how long it would take them.

You also need to think going forward about maintaining it how hard will it be to add features and adapt to changes. For example what happens if you get hit by a bus!

For example MVC vs. web forms

MVC allows for a great deal of options for automated testing.

Web form you can find many more developers who know how to code them. And you can find many more controls designed for standard webforms vs MVC projects.