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List of common acronyms .NET
http://safari.oreilly.com/0596005059/dotnetfrmess3-APP-B
.ASMX
File extension for web services source-code files.
.ASPX
File extension for ASP.NET source-code files.
.config
File extension of .NET application configuration files.
ADO
ActiveX Data Objects.
ADO.NET
With goals similar to ADO, ADO.NET is the way to access data sources in .NET.
API
Application Programming Interface.
AppDomain
Short term to mean an application domain.
ASP
Active Server Pages.
ASP.NET
With goals similar to ASP, ASP.NET is the technology that supports the rapid development of Web Forms.
ATL
Active Template Library.
BLOB
Binary Large Object.
CAB Files
Cabinet files.
CCW
COM Callable Wrapper.
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.
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.
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, accepted term is Common Language Runtime.
CTS
Common Type System.
DB
Database.
DCOM
Distributed Component Object Model.
DHTML
Dynamic HyperText Markup Language.
DISCO
Discovery of web services. A Web Service has one or more .DISCO files that contain information on how to access its WSDL.
DISPID
Dispatch identifier. Used in COM to identify a method or a property for dynamic invocation.
DLL
Dynamically Linked Library.
DNA
Distributed interNet Applications Architecture.
DOM
Document Object Model.
DTD
Data Type Document. This has been superceded by XSD.
EXE
Executable.
GC
Garbage Collector.
GDI
Graphical Device Interface.
GDI+
A .NET library that supports advanced graphics management.
Global.asax
The global configuration file for an ASP.NET application.
GUID
Globally Unique Identifier.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language.
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol.
IDE
Integrated Development Environment.
IDL
Interface Definition Language.
IE
Internet Explorer.
IID
Interface Identifier.
IIS
Internet Information Server.
IJW
It Just Works.
IL
Intermediate Language.
ILDASM
Intermediate Language Disassembler.
Inproc
In-Process.
ISAPI
Information Server Application Programming Interface.
Machine.config
Configuration file for administrative policy for an entire machine.
MBR
Marshal-By-Reference.
MBV
Marshal-By-Value.
MFC
Microsoft Foundation Classes.
MSI
Microsoft Windows Installer Package.
MSIL
Microsoft Intermediate Language.
MSVCRT
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime.
MSXML
Microsoft eXtensible Markup Language.
MTS
Microsoft Transaction Server.
NGWS
Stands for Next Generation Windows Services, the original name for .NET before it was previewed at PDC 2000 in Orlando, Florida. This term is no longer used.
NTFS
NT File System.
N-Tier
Multi-tier.
NTLM
NT Lan Manager.
OBJREF
Object Reference.
Out of proc
Out-of-process.
P/Invoke
Platform Invoke.
PE
Portable Executable.
perm
Permissions.
RAD
Rapid Application Development.
RCW
Runtime Callable Wrapper.
REGASM
Register Assembly tool.
RPC
Remote Procedure Call.
SCL
SOAP Contract Language.
SDK
Software Development Kit.
SEH
Structured Exception Handling.
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol.
SQL
Structured Query Language.
STL
Standard Template Library.
TCP
Transport Control Protocol.
TLB
Type Library.
TLBEXP
Type Library Exporter Tool.
TLBIMP
Type Library Importer Tool.
UDDI
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration Service. UDDI is a platform-independent framework for describing and discovering web services.
UDF
Uniform Data Format.
UI
User Interface.
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator.
URT
Universal Runtime. This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new, accepted term is the .NET Framework.
VB
Visual Basic.
VBRUN
Visual Basic Runtime.
VES
Virtual Execution System. The VES is a subset of the CLR. The VES doesn't include features such as debugging, profile, and COM interoperation.
VOS
Virtual Object System. This is now called the CTS.
VS.NET
Visual Studio .NET.
WAP
Wireless Application 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.
WebForms
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).
WebServices
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new, accepted term is web services (with a space).
Win32
Windows 32-bit.
WinForms
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK.
WML
Wireless Markup Language.
WSDL
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 replaced SDL in Beta 2 and later installments.
XML
Extensible Markup Language.
XPath
XML Path.
XSD
XML Schema Definition.
XSL
Extensible Stylesheet Language.
XSLT
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.
.ASMX
File extension for web services source-code files.
.ASPX
File extension for ASP.NET source-code files.
.config
File extension of .NET application configuration files.
ADO
ActiveX Data Objects.
ADO.NET
With goals similar to ADO, ADO.NET is the way to access data sources in .NET.
API
Application Programming Interface.
AppDomain
Short term to mean an application domain.
ASP
Active Server Pages.
ASP.NET
With goals similar to ASP, ASP.NET is the technology that supports the rapid development of Web Forms.
ATL
Active Template Library.
BLOB
Binary Large Object.
CAB Files
Cabinet files.
CCW
COM Callable Wrapper.
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.
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.
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, accepted term is Common Language Runtime.
CTS
Common Type System.
DB
Database.
DCOM
Distributed Component Object Model.
DHTML
Dynamic HyperText Markup Language.
DISCO
Discovery of web services. A Web Service has one or more .DISCO files that contain information on how to access its WSDL.
DISPID
Dispatch identifier. Used in COM to identify a method or a property for dynamic invocation.
DLL
Dynamically Linked Library.
DNA
Distributed interNet Applications Architecture.
DOM
Document Object Model.
DTD
Data Type Document. This has been superceded by XSD.
EXE
Executable.
GC
Garbage Collector.
GDI
Graphical Device Interface.
GDI+
A .NET library that supports advanced graphics management.
Global.asax
The global configuration file for an ASP.NET application.
GUID
Globally Unique Identifier.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language.
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol.
IDE
Integrated Development Environment.
IDL
Interface Definition Language.
IE
Internet Explorer.
IID
Interface Identifier.
IIS
Internet Information Server.
IJW
It Just Works.
IL
Intermediate Language.
ILDASM
Intermediate Language Disassembler.
Inproc
In-Process.
ISAPI
Information Server Application Programming Interface.
Machine.config
Configuration file for administrative policy for an entire machine.
MBR
Marshal-By-Reference.
MBV
Marshal-By-Value.
MFC
Microsoft Foundation Classes.
MSI
Microsoft Windows Installer Package.
MSIL
Microsoft Intermediate Language.
MSVCRT
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime.
MSXML
Microsoft eXtensible Markup Language.
MTS
Microsoft Transaction Server.
NGWS
Stands for Next Generation Windows Services, the original name for .NET before it was previewed at PDC 2000 in Orlando, Florida. This term is no longer used.
NTFS
NT File System.
N-Tier
Multi-tier.
NTLM
NT Lan Manager.
OBJREF
Object Reference.
Out of proc
Out-of-process.
P/Invoke
Platform Invoke.
PE
Portable Executable.
perm
Permissions.
RAD
Rapid Application Development.
RCW
Runtime Callable Wrapper.
REGASM
Register Assembly tool.
RPC
Remote Procedure Call.
SCL
SOAP Contract Language.
SDK
Software Development Kit.
SEH
Structured Exception Handling.
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol.
SQL
Structured Query Language.
STL
Standard Template Library.
TCP
Transport Control Protocol.
TLB
Type Library.
TLBEXP
Type Library Exporter Tool.
TLBIMP
Type Library Importer Tool.
UDDI
Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration Service. UDDI is a platform-independent framework for describing and discovering web services.
UDF
Uniform Data Format.
UI
User Interface.
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator.
URT
Universal Runtime. This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new, accepted term is the .NET Framework.
VB
Visual Basic.
VBRUN
Visual Basic Runtime.
VES
Virtual Execution System. The VES is a subset of the CLR. The VES doesn't include features such as debugging, profile, and COM interoperation.
VOS
Virtual Object System. This is now called the CTS.
VS.NET
Visual Studio .NET.
WAP
Wireless Application 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.
WebForms
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).
WebServices
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK. The new, accepted term is web services (with a space).
Win32
Windows 32-bit.
WinForms
This term is no longer used as of Beta 1 of the .NET SDK.
WML
Wireless Markup Language.
WSDL
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 replaced SDL in Beta 2 and later installments.
XML
Extensible Markup Language.
XPath
XML Path.
XSD
XML Schema Definition.
XSL
Extensible Stylesheet Language.
XSLT
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.
.NET Languages
Microsoft-Supported Languages for .NET
Following are the list of commercial languages that Microsoft supports. You can find more information about each of these languages by browsing the provided URLs.
Visual C# .NET (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/ )
Visual J# .NET (Java) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/ )
Visual C++ .NET (Managed C++) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/ )
Visual Basic .NET (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ )
JScript for the CLR (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/languages/clinic/scripting07142000.asp )
Third-Party Languages for .NET
Following is the list of third-party languages with compilers that target the CLR. Some of these are research languages, while others are commercial languages that target .NET. Browse the provided web sites to read more about the languages that interest you. As noted earlier, this list of languages could grow by the time this book hits the market, so be sure to check the following site for the most up-to-date listings: http://www.gotdotnet.com.
APL (http://www.dyadic.com )
COBOL (http://www.adtools.com/info/whitepaper/net.html )
Component Pascal (http://www.citi.qut.edu.au/research/plas/projects/component_pascal.jsp )
Delta Forth (http://www.dataman.ro/dforth/ )
Eiffel# (http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/dotnet/eiffelsharp/white_paper.html )
Fortran (http://www.lahey.com/dotnet.htm, http://www.salfordsoftware.co.uk/compilers/ftn95/dotnet.shtml )
Haskell (http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc )
Mercury (http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/dotnet.html )
Mondrian (http://www.mondrian-script.org )
Oberon (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/lightning )
Perl (http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/NET )
Python (http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/NET )
RPG (http://www.asna.com/pr2%5F20%5F01.asp )
Scheme (http://rover.cs.nwu.edu/~scheme )
Smalltalk (http://www.lesser-software.com/en/content/products/lswvst/LSWVSt.htm )
S# (http://www.smallscript.net )
Standard ML (http://www.research.microsoft.com/Projects/SML.NET )
TMT Pascal (http://www.tmt.com/net.htm )
Following are the list of commercial languages that Microsoft supports. You can find more information about each of these languages by browsing the provided URLs.
Visual C# .NET (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/ )
Visual J# .NET (Java) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/ )
Visual C++ .NET (Managed C++) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/ )
Visual Basic .NET (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ )
JScript for the CLR (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/languages/clinic/scripting07142000.asp )
Third-Party Languages for .NET
Following is the list of third-party languages with compilers that target the CLR. Some of these are research languages, while others are commercial languages that target .NET. Browse the provided web sites to read more about the languages that interest you. As noted earlier, this list of languages could grow by the time this book hits the market, so be sure to check the following site for the most up-to-date listings: http://www.gotdotnet.com.
APL (http://www.dyadic.com )
COBOL (http://www.adtools.com/info/whitepaper/net.html )
Component Pascal (http://www.citi.qut.edu.au/research/plas/projects/component_pascal.jsp )
Delta Forth (http://www.dataman.ro/dforth/ )
Eiffel# (http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/dotnet/eiffelsharp/white_paper.html )
Fortran (http://www.lahey.com/dotnet.htm, http://www.salfordsoftware.co.uk/compilers/ftn95/dotnet.shtml )
Haskell (http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc )
Mercury (http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/dotnet.html )
Mondrian (http://www.mondrian-script.org )
Oberon (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/lightning )
Perl (http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/NET )
Python (http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/NET )
RPG (http://www.asna.com/pr2%5F20%5F01.asp )
Scheme (http://rover.cs.nwu.edu/~scheme )
Smalltalk (http://www.lesser-software.com/en/content/products/lswvst/LSWVSt.htm )
S# (http://www.smallscript.net )
Standard ML (http://www.research.microsoft.com/Projects/SML.NET )
TMT Pascal (http://www.tmt.com/net.htm )
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