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Posted on Jun 30

CodeBehind Turns Two Years Old

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Today, June 30, 2025, CodeBehind turns two years old. Happy Birthday CodeBehind!

CodeBehind is a powerful and versatile third-party framework on .NET that competes with Microsoft's web frameworks (ASP.NET MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor). The framework is built by Elanat.

The first year of CodeBehind ended with the release of version 2.8. After the first year, with around-the-clock modeling and testing efforts, we were able to create the WebForms Core technology and put it into the core of CodeBehind. This technology was added to CodeBehind in version 2.9. The addition of WebForms Core technology to the core of CodeBehind transformed CodeBehind from a back-end framework to a full-stack versatile framework.

WebForms Core is a revolutionary technology for managing HTML tags from the server side.

Example:

WebForms form = new WebForms();

form.SetDisabled("Button1");
form.SetBackgroundColor("<body>", "yellow");

Control(form, true);

The above example disables the submit button and makes the body tag background yellow.

This was a very simple example; WebForms Core technology has extensive features for full HTML management (such as drag and drop) to compete with front-end frameworks.

During the second year, in addition to the addition of WebForms Core technology, we also saw the addition of WebSocket protocol support, advanced cache capabilities, and many other improvements and improvements, and now version 4.2 is the latest version of the CodeBehind framework.

The following list shows the new features of the CodeBehind framework in the second year:

New features on new versions

Version 2.9

New features:

Added WebFormsJS
Added support for Web-Forms controls
Added PostBack and GetBack method
Added possibility to ignore Layout through Controller class and Model class and View page
Added possibility to ignore View through Model class
Added IgnoreAll method in Controller class and Model class
Automatic moving of dll files from the wwwroot/dll path to the designated View path
And a series of minor changes and improvements

In this version, access to Web-Forms controls has been added

Version 2.9.1

Problems that were solved:

Fixing server response location problem in WebFormsJS.

Version 2.9.2

Problems that were solved:

Better identification of the PostBack method in submit type inputs in WebFormsJS.

Version 3.0

New features:

Improved implementation structure of Action Controls for the first browser request
Extending WebForms class methods to support new WebFormsJS features
Support for specifying the location of the tag to place the data received from the server in WebFormsJS
Added new web-forms tag in WebFormsJS
Multiple ViewState types in PostBack and GetBack methods in WebFormsJS
Support for Pre Runners and running them back to back in the queue in WebFormsJS
Script code execution support in WebFormsJS
Support delay and repetition in time intervals in WebFormsJS
Support for negative indexes to access values from the end of the list in WebFormsJS
Support for calling URLs in WebFormsJS
Improving the functionality of HtmlData classes by adding new methods
And a series of minor changes and improvements

Version 3.1

New features:

Better compatibility with older browsers in WebFormsJS
And a series of minor changes and improvements

Problems that were solved:

Solved the problem of other operating systems not working due to the wrong determination of the separator of directories in the path.

Version 3.2

New features:

Support for default Controller
- Support for Section mode in the default Controller

Version 3.2.1

Problems that were solved:

Fixed extra line issue in Razor syntax code blocks
Fixed a minor problem in creating the list of Sections in Controllers

Version 3.2.2

New features:

Adding manual cache class
Improving the source code of CodeBehind classes

Problems that were solved:

Resolving the problem of detecting else after else if in Razor syntax
Adaptation of WebForms class with delay and period

Version 3.3

New features:

Adding two middleware named UseCodeBehindNextNotFound and UseCodeBehindRouteNextNotFound to continue the process if the page or controller is not found

Problems that were solved:

Resolving the problem of detecting multi line between text tag in Razor syntax code blocks
Solving the problem of ignoring cache parameters
Solving the problem of additional default code in the switch case code for load Controllers
A series of other minor corrections

Version 3.4

New features:

Structure improvements for faster execution and increased performance

Problems that were solved:

Fixed issue of not allocating controller attributes

Version 3.4.1

Problems that were solved:

The problem of program break in calling View was solved

Version 3.5

New features:

Ability to support conditional expressions and loops without needing brackets in Razor syntax
New options for accessing controllers, in lower case
Adding an option to create or not create default pages in the options file
Adding option to ignore the controller name prefix and suffix
Adding option to convert two underlines into a single dash to call the controller name
And a series of minor changes and improvements

Problems that were solved:

Fixed location tag detection issue when calling back in WebFormsJS

Version 3.6

New features:

Improved performance for making final View classes
Added SetViewPath method in Controller class
Added SetErrorPage method in Controller class
And a series of minor changes and improvements

Problems that were solved:

Fixing the problem of not adding the log file to display errors in View files

Version 3.6.1

New features:

Adding extension method named Has to be used instead of string.IsNullOrEmpty
Creating a null state for Layout to set the global Layout value

Version 3.7

New features:

The possibility of IgnoreAll in the Control method in the Controller class
The possibility of appending the instance created from the WebForms class to another created instance
Ability to add new text and tags at the beginning of the tag
Ability to cache action control
The possibility of adding text at the beginning of the tag
The possibility of creating a tag at the beginning of the tag
Ability to delete all option tags
Ability to delete all checkbox tags
Added the ability to focus on tags
Ability to change the URL in the user's browser
Added new cache and session features with the ability to insert and delete and delete all and cache duration
Ability to temporarily store values in the browser cache session
The possibility of assigning random numbers to the attributes of tags
Ability to assign time and date
Ability to assign session and cache
Ability to assign scripts
Other features and improvements

Version 3.7.1

Problems that were solved:

Fixing the problem of saving title tags

Version 3.7.2

Problems that were solved:

Add trim to better detect Action Controls responses

Version 3.8

New features:

Change the default template
Ability to add a new tag, before and after the tag

Version 3.9

New features:

New TagBack feature for executing web-forms tag control actions
Ability to assign Events to HTML tags
Ability to delete action controls of the WebForms class
New method for inserting web-forms tag without first render
The possibility of deleting events
Other features and improvements

In this version it is possible to add events in WebForms Core

Version 3.9.1

Problems that were solved:

Fixing the problem of having double cue instead of cue in event methods

Version 3.9.2

New features:

Security coordination with MapStaticAssets middleware in .NET 9

Version 4.0

New features:

Support for multiple responses in Action Controls
Possibility of internal client caching on server responses
New feature of sending values embedded in the names of submit inputs
Ability to select parent input places in WebForms Core
New ability to remove parent tag in WebForms Core
New ability to fetch cookie in WebForms Core
Added AddLine method to support extended multi-command methods
And a series of minor changes and improvements

Version 4.1

New features:

WebSocket protocol support in WebForms Core technology
- Ability to specify IDs for WebSockets in the controller, model and view
- Ability to broadcast data for WebSockets with filtering in controller, model and view
- Ability to set the maximum number of WebSocket connections for the client
- Ability to add WebSocket events in WebForms Core technology
- Added new middleware to support WebSocket
- Ability to submit form data via WebSocket protocol
New mechanism for efficiently adding and removing events
Improving GetBack and PostBack methods in WebFormsJS library
And a series of minor changes and improvements

Version 4.1.1

Problems that were solved:

Fixing the problem of determining client ID in WebSocket

Version 4.2

New features:

Checking browser support in WebFormsJS
Ability to permanently store values in localStorage in WebForms Core
Replacing event instead of this and preserving sending with async in WebForms Core
Automatically clearing expired caches in WebForms Core
Executing the onload event after assignment in tags in WebForms Core
Using efficient methods instead of innerHTML and outerHTML in WebForms Core
New GoTo feature to return to previous lines of Action Controls with the ability to specify the repetition rate in WebForms Core
Ability to access the tag in which the event was executed (current or target) in WebForms Core
New method to add hidden tags more easily in WebForms Core
Improved support for adding attributes and the ability to specify the splitter character in WebForms Core
Improved the cb_AddEvent and cb_AddEventListener methods in WebForms Core
Adding the ability to add PreventDefault and StopPropagation methods to events in WebForms Core
Ability to save and restore line by line in WebForms Core
Ability to save and restore INI format in WebForms Core
Ability to save and restore URL in WebForms Core
Accessibility by selected key name in WebForms Core
Ability to access mouse position on page in WebForms Core
Ability to access tag index in WebForms Core
Optimization to preserve event listeners after changing internal tags
And a series of minor changes and improvements