Article on Automatic Memory Management in .net

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The most expensive problem the current VC++ programmers are facing would be 'memory leak'. To be clear, every new operator we use in our program should be matched with a delete operator. i.e. if we allocate memory for an object using new keyword then it should be deallocated using the delete operator. If we forget to apply delete operator then the memory allocated using the new operator cannot be used for other purposes. This is called memory leak. In .net there is no place for the term memory leak, because we don't have to use delete operator on any object. We can use the new keyword, and forget about delete. .Net will automatically delete the object when that particular object is no longer used or referenced.
Web Services:-

Web Services are standardized way to communicate between two entities/processes over web. This uses XML(eXtensible Markup Language), WSDL (Web Service Description Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration). We can think of this web services as similar to windows services but this web services can also be accessed from any where over web. .Net has full support to the web services comparing other technologies.
Easy Deployment:-

In case of .Net applications, the deployment is just a copy and paste. Because all the .Net assemblies are 'self describing'. We don't need to depend on any header file or registry (like COM components) or others. Just by copying the files and pasting it in a different machine will complete the deployment. (However any shared assemblies should be installed into a special folder called 'assembly').
Interoperability:-

Interoperability can be defined as the ability of a hardware/software to share data between two applications on different/same machine. Consider we have two applications one is developed in VC++ and other one is developed in VB. It is not possible to share the data (with out any special mechanism) from one application to another application as the data type used in one language cannot be understood by other application.

Most of the applications running now a day were developed using C, C++, COM etc. Moving towards .Net technology, it is not possible to recreate all the application developed in other technologies so far. For that purpose .Net has provided a full support for .Net applications to interact with other applications and vice versa. Any COM component or Win32 application can be communicated easily with .Net application.