When I first started playing around with Whidbey, I was kinda miffed that the default setting for creating an ASP page was putting code within the markup tags, albeit in a different view in the IDE. After a few posts by the ASP.NET team about their reasons behind (no pun intended) this (as I've heard it called) “code-beside” model, I started to see the benefits. After writing some test code with VS 2005, I like it even more. In fact, VS 2005 doesn't care if you use code-behind or code-beside (code-inside, whatever you want to call it). Either way, the templates make it just as easy to develop. Well, tonight I read a blog post by Andy Smith about the whole issue. This is a great read if you are interested. It takes you from the old, nasty <% %> method of ASP development, to code-behind woes, to ASP.NET development in VS 2005. Good stuff.
