August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 21m
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
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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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.config |
File extension of .NET application configuration files. |
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ADO |
ActiveX Data Objects. |
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ADO.NET |
With goals similar to ADO, ADO.NET is the way to access data sources in .NET. |
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API |
Application Programming Interface. |
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AppDomain |
Short term to mean an application domain. |
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ASP |
Active Server Pages. |
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ASP.NET |
With goals similar to ASP, ASP.NET is the technology that supports the rapid development of Web Forms. |
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ATL |
Active Template Library. |
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BLOB |
Binary Large Object. |
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CAB Files |
Cabinet files. |
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CCW |
COM Callable Wrapper. |
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CLI |
Common Language Infrastructure. This is the specification of the infrastructure and base-class libraries that Microsoft has submitted to ECMA so that a third-party vendor can build a .NET runtime on another platform. The CLR is Microsoft’s implementation of the CLI. |
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CLR |
Common Language Runtime. |
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CLS |
Common Language Specification. |
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CLSID |
Class identifier used in COM. |
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COFF |
Common Object File Format. |
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COM |
Component Object Model. |
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COM Interop ... |
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