ASP.NET Glossary

XDA

XDA is a consolidated development environment that allows programs to be created for Windows, XBoxes, and more.

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Stylesheets
ADO.NET (ActiveX Data Object for .NET)
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Windows Form

Windows Form ( also called WinForms) is a .NET Framework object that allows the development of “traditional” Windows desktop applications.

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WSDL (Web Services Description Language)

WSDL is an XML-based contract language for describing the network services offered by a Web service provider via UDDI. WSDL describes a Web service to Web service consumers by its public methods, data types of all parameters, return value, and bindings.

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XQL (XML Query Language)
CLS (Common Language Specification)
Private assembly
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Web service provider

Web service provider is a network application that uses Internet protocols to advertise and provide services to Web service consumers.

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Pointer
XPointer (XML Pointer Language)
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Web Service Protocols

Web Service Protocols are open communication standards that are key technologies in the .NET Web Services architecture. These protocols include WSDL, HTTP, XML, SOAP, and UDDI.

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Web service consumer

Web service consumer is an application that uses Internet protocols to access the information and functionality made available by a Web service provider.

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Web service

Web service is an application hosted on a Web server that provides information and services to other network applications using the HTTP and XML protocols. A Web service is conceptually an URL-addressable library of functionality that is completely independent of the consumer and stateless in its operation.

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MVC (Model-View-Controller)
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Web Form

Web Form is a .NET Framework object that allows development of Web-based applications and Web sites.

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Remoting
Event
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Visual Studio

This development tool contains a rich set of productivity and debugging features. The Visual Studio setup CDs (or DVD) include the complete .NET Framework, so you won’t need to download it separately.

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Exception Handling
Managed code
VB.NET (Visual Basic .NET)
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Variable

Variable is a typed storage location in memory. The type of the variable determines what kind of data it can store. Examples of variables include local variables, array elements, parameters, instance fields and static fields.

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Finally block
Method
Delegate
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