June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 32m
English
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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 |
|---|---|
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.ASMX |
File extension for Web Services source-code files. |
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.ASPX |
File extension for ASP.NET source-code files. |
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.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. |
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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. ... |
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