>Hello all,
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>Without going into too much detail, I would like to have suggestions for the 'best' way to code and develop a new web based application. Please take into account I have already coded multiple applications using ASP.NET. Also, I am using Mere Mortals as my application framework, SQL Server 2008 R2 as my database and use Telerik tools and Telerik Reporting and obviously use Visual Studio.
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>Basically, I want to be able to determine if I should stay with ASP.NET or move to Silverlight, MVC or something else.
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>Thanks in advance for any comments and suggestions.

I think the answer probably depends to a large extent on the type of application. MVC4/Razor can work well but the trend, more and more, seems to be towards putting a lot more controller and UI logic on the client and just using something like the WebApi to handle the data. In a high-load situation the latter makes more sense - the more work done on the client the less needs to be done on the server.

Biggest problem with Silverlight is the lack of cross-platform support (and there probably won't be much in the way of new releases) but it can handle some things easily that are still a nightmare with HTML5.

My 2c....