Moving the App from ASP.NET to ASP.NET MVC?

Yes, it is possible, ASP.Net MVC + jQuery is very simple and powerful platform. We've done several sophisticated web-applications on that platform and that was very easy and interesting.

Rewriting an application with only 500 users to save on some viewstate bytes seems a very inefficient use of time.

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