Richer User Interface

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Richer User Interface Web Forms are a giant step towards much richer web-based
user interfaces. Their built-in intelligence allows rich, browser-independent screens to
be developed quickly, and to be easily integrated with compiled code. Microsoft has
announced an initiative for the future called the Universal Canvas which builds upon
the XML standards to transform the internet from a Read only environment into a
read/write platform, enabling users to interactively create, browse, edit and analyze
information. The universal canvas can bring together multiple sources of information
anywhere in the world to enable seamless data access and use.(The universal canvas
will log on to the Ms System of servers whenever the new device is turned on)
Centrally controlled OS, Office and Visual Studio.

Easy Deployment Executable modules in .NET are self-describing. Once the
Common Language Runtime (CLR is explained in next sections) knows where a
module resides, it can find out everything else it needs to know to run the module,
such as the module's object interface and security requirements, from the module
itself. That means a module can just be copied to a new environment and immediately
executed.

Support for Multiple Languages The CLR executes binary code called MSIL
(Microsoft intermediate language), and that code looks the same regardless of the
original source language. All .NET enabled languages use the same data types and
the same interfacing conventions. This makes possible for all .NET language to
interoperate transparently. One language can call another easily, and languages can
even inherit classes written in another language and extend them current platform has
anywhere near this level of language interoperability.

Extendibility The completely object based approach of .NET is designed to allow
base functionality to be extended through inheritance ( unlike COM) and the
platform's functionality is appropriately partitioned to allow various parts( such as the
just-in-time compilers discussed in the next section) to be replaced as new versions
are needed. It is likely that, in the future, new ways of interfacing to the outside world
will be added to the current trio of windows Form, Web Forms, and Web Services
such as universal Canvas.

Portability of compiled Applications .NET allows the future possibility of moving
software to other hardware and operating system platforms. The ultimate goal is that
compiled code produced on one implementation of .NET (such as Windows) could be
moved to another implementation of .NET on a different operating system merely by
copying the compiled code over and running it.

Integrity with COM .NET integrates very will with COM-based software. Any COM
component can be treated as a .NET component by other .NET components. The
.NET Framework wraps COM components and exposes an interface that .NET