What are the practical uses of Factory Method Pattern?

Question

I\'m pretty new to Design Patterns.I just came across Factory Design Pattern. I understood that it delegates the instantiation to subclasses. But I didn\'t get the actual ap

Answer 1

Admittedly the need for actual use of the more painful implementation details described by the pattern were removed thanks to the way C# works, but my SQL DAL functionality passes around object factories (and SQL commands) to utility functions that use the factories in order to generate objects. If I was not using C#, I suppose I could instead have used an explicit factory class that generated the objects.