Appendix G. Abbreviations used in this book
Abbreviations and acronyms figure prominently in computer literature. Rather than define them on first use (and then have difficulty finding a definition again) all those used in this book are defined in Table G.1.
| ADO .NET | ActiveX Data Objects .NET |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
| BCL | Base Class Library |
| CCW | COM Callable Wrapper |
| CF | (.NET) Compact Framework |
| CIL | Common Intermediate Language |
| CLI | Common Language Infrastructure |
| CLR | Common Language Runtime |
| CLS | Common Language Specification |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CTS | Common Type System |
| DCOM | Distributed COM |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DNA | Distributed interNetwork Architecture ... |
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