.NET Benefits

These two features of .NET, web services and assembly version provide it with a great deal of power to offer many useful services and benefits to both developers and businesses.

• Reusable web-services
  • Web services are able to be written in the language best suited to carrying out the job
  • Any programmer can debug web-service calls across service and component boundaries without requiring familiarity with the language in which the service or component was written
  • Reduces cost
• Multi-platform
  • .NET and web services may be run on Windows, Unix, PalmOS
  • XML is the common exchange medium
  • SOAP as common RPC protocol
  • Open standards!
• Device compatibility
  • Web services can work with any device, without requiring specialized device drivers for interacting with it
  • Simplified service interface leads to simplified development and reduced cost

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