.Net Framework Essentials

Appendix B. Common Acronyms

Table B-1 provides a listing of common acronyms or terms that you will come across in .NET-related reading materials and conversations. Some of these acronyms or terms have little relevance to .NET, but appear occasionally in this book, so we’ve provided them in this table for your convenience.

Table B-1. List of common acronyms

Acronym	Description
.ASMX	File extension for Web Services source-code files.
.ASPX	File extension for ASP.NET source-code files.
.CFG	File extension of .NET application configuration files.
ADO	ActiveX Data Objects.
ADO+	This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is ADO.NET.
API	Application Programming Interface.
AppDomain	Short term to mean an application domain.
ASP	Active Server Pages.
ASP+	This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is ASP.NET.
ATL	Active Template Library.
BCL	Base Class Library.
BLOB	Binary Large Object.
CAB Files	Cabinet files.
CCW	COM Callable Wrapper.
CLI	Common Language Infrastructure. This is a subset of the CLR and base class libraries that Microsoft has submitted to ECMA so that a third-party vendor can build a .NET runtime on another platform.
CLR	Common Language Runtime.
CLS	Common Language Specification.
CLSID	Class identifier used in COM.
COFF	Common Object File Format.
COM	Component Object Model.
COM Interop	Short for COM interoperation. ...