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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File extension for Web Services source-code files. | |
File extension for ASP.NET source-code files. | |
File extension of .NET application configuration files. | |
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. |
Application Programming Interface. | |
Short term to mean an application domain. | |
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. |
Active Template Library. | |
Base Class Library. | |
Binary Large Object. | |
Cabinet files. | |
COM Callable Wrapper. | |
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. | |
Common Language Runtime. | |
Common Language Specification. | |
Class identifier used in COM. | |
Common Object File Format. | |
Component Object Model. | |
Short for COM interoperation. | |
COM+ 2.0 |
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new accepted term is .NET Framework. |
COM+ Runtime |
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is Common Language Runtime. |
Common Type System. | |
Database. | |
Distributed Component Object Model. | |
Dynamic HyperText Markup Language. | |
Discovery of Web Services. A Web Service has one or more .DISCO files that contain information on how to access its WSDL. | |
Dispatch identifier. Used in COM to identify a method or a property for dynamic invocation. | |
Dynamically Linked Library. | |
Distributed interNet Applications Architecture. | |
Document Object Model. | |
Datatype Document. This has been replaced by XSD schemas. | |
Economical JIT Compiler. | |
Executable. | |
GC |
Garbage Collector. |
Graphical Device Interface. | |
GDI+ |
A .NET library that supports advanced graphics management. |
Global.asax |
The global configuration file for an ASP.NET application. |
Globally Unique Identifier. | |
HyperText Markup Language. | |
HyperText Transfer Protocol. | |
Integrated Development Environment. | |
Interface Definition Language. | |
Internet Explorer. | |
Interface Identifier. | |
IIS |
Internet Information Server. |
It Just Works. | |
Intermediate Language. | |
Intermediate Language Disassembler. | |
In-Process. | |
Information Server Application Programming Interface. | |
Configuration file for administrative policy for an entire machine. | |
Marshal-By-Reference. | |
MBV |
Marshal-By-Value. |
Microsoft Foundation Classes. | |
Microsoft Windows Installer Package. | |
Microsoft Intermediate Language. | |
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime. | |
Microsoft Extended Markup Language. | |
Microsoft Transaction Server. | |
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is .NET. | |
NT Filesystem. | |
Multi-tier. | |
NT Lan Manager. | |
Object Reference. | |
Out of proc |
Out-of-process. |
Optimized JIT compiler. | |
Platform Invoke. | |
Portable Executable. | |
perm |
Permissions. |
Rapid Application Development. | |
Runtime Callable Wrapper. | |
Register Assembly tool. | |
Remote Procedure Calling. | |
SOAP Contract Language. | |
Software Development Kit. | |
Structured Exception Handling. | |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. | |
Simple Object Access Protocol. | |
Structured Query Language. | |
Optimized native code that includes verification of IL (generaged by the standard JIT compiler). | |
Standard Template Library. | |
Transport Control Protocol. | |
Type Library. | |
TLBEXP |
Type Library Exporter Tool. |
TLBIMP |
Type Library Importer Tool. |
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration Service. UDDI is a platform-independent framework for describing and discovering Web Services. | |
Uniform Data Format. | |
User Interface. | |
Uniform Resource Identifier. | |
Uniform Resource Locator. | |
Universal Runtime. This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is the .NET Framework. | |
Visual Basic. | |
Visual Basic Runtime. | |
Virtual Execution System. The VES is a subset of the CLR. The VES doesn’t include features such as debugging, profile, and COM interoperation. | |
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is Visual Studio.NET. | |
Virtual Object System. This is now called the CTS. | |
Visual Studio.NET. | |
Wireless Access Protocol. | |
web.config |
Configuration file for ASP.NET. You define HTTP modules, handlers, session state management, and other ASP.NET configurable parameters in this file. |
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is Web Forms (with a space). | |
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is Web Services (with a space). | |
Windows 32-bit. | |
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new and accepted term is Windows Forms (with a space). | |
Wireless Markup Language. | |
Web Service Description Language. Think of this as IDL for Web Services. Unlike IDL, WSDL is expressed using only XML schemas. SDL is used in Beta1 of the .NET SDK, but WSDL will replace SDL in Beta 2 and later installments. | |
Extensible Markup Language. | |
XML Path. | |
XML Schema Definition. | |
Extensible Stylesheet Language. | |
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