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ReviewCoreASPHosting.NET | Best and cheap ASP.NET Core 2.0 hosting. One of the brand new features added to ASP.NET Core in version 2.0 preview 1 is Razor Pages. This harks back to the (terribly named) ASP.NET Web Pages framework, which was a simpler, page-based, alternative framework to MVC. It was a completely different stack, and was sort of .NET's answer to PHP. I know, that might make you shudder, but I've actually had a fair amount of success with it. It allowed our designers who had HTML knowledge but no C# to be productive, without having to deal with full MVC. Web developers might turn their nose up at that, but there's really no reason for a designer to go there, and would you want them to? A developer could just jump on for any dynamic bits of code that were beyond the designer, but otherwise you could leave them to it. This post dips a toe into the justification of Razor Pages...