Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Access 2003

Appendix A. Glossary

.NET

Microsoft’s strategy, announced in June 2000, to reorient its operating systems, developer tools, and productivity applications from the Component Object Model (COM) to the .NET Framework and its Common Language Runtime (CLR). The CLR supports multiple programming languages, such as Microsoft’s Visual C#, Visual Basic .NET, and Visual J#. Much of Microsoft’s marketing campaign for the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET focuses on support for Internet-enabled XML Web services. Microsoft Office 2003 installs version 1.1 of the .NET framework to support Excel 2003 and Word 2003. The .NET Framework is a reincarnation of Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS), the follow-up to Microsoft’s earlier Distributed iNternet Architecture ...