title: Are there alternatives to ASP.NET for C# web development?
body: <p>Lately, I've been thinking that I'd like to try some new ideas and a new approach to web application design.  I'm mostly used to using ASP.NET (.NET 2.0) but I've toyed with the ASP.NET MVC library a little bit as well.  While both are powerful and interesting, I'd really like something more... basic.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anything like that out there?  I'd like a framework that's more transparent really: I want to be able to see the request, pass it where I want, render HTML the way I want, and post requests how I want.  I can get all that in ASP.NET, but I have to dig pretty hard to get at all of it.  I'd like something simpler to use as the basis for some new framework ideas. </p>
  
  <p>So is there something like that out there?  Or would I pretty much have to completely reinvent all the basic routing, request, and response code as well to get a platform to build up from?</p>