Locale is a collection of rules and data specific to a spoken and/or written language and/or a geographic area. Locale information includes human languages, date and time formats, numeric and monetary conventions, sorting rules, cultural and regional contexts (semantics), and character classification. The practice of designing and developing software that will properly use all of the conventions defined …
ASP.NET Glossary
Local (or Application) assembly cache is the assembly cache that stores the compiled classes and methods specific to an application. Each application directory contains a \bin sub-directory which stores the files of the local assembly cache.
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Lifetime is the duration from an objects existence. From the time an object is instantiated to the time it is destroyed by the garbage collector.
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DTD (Document Type Definition)
XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language)
Satellite assembly
VB.NET (Visual …
Keywords are the names that have been reserved for special use in a programming language. The C# language defines about 80 keywords, such as bool, namespace, class, static, and for. Keywords may not be used as identifiers in program code.
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CIL (Common Intermediate …
JIT is the concept of only compiling units of code just as they are needed at runtime. The JIT compiler in the CLR compiles MSIL instructions to native machine code as a .NET application is executed. The JIT-compiled code is cached in memory and is never recompiled more than once during the program’s execution.
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Managed data
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Isolated storage is a data storage mechanism used by the CLR to insure isolation and type safety by defining standardized ways of associating code with saved data. Data contained in isolated storage is always identified by user and by assembly, rather than by an address in memory, or the name and path of a file on disk. Other …
Inheritance is the ability of a class to be created from another class. The new class, called a derived class or subclass, is an exact copy of the base class or superclass and may extend the functionality of the base class by both adding additional types and methods and overriding existing ones.
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Web Service Protocols
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Interface is the set of properties, methods, indexers, and events exposed by an object that allow other objects to access its data and functionality. An object guarantees that it will support all of the elements of its interface by way of an interface contract. In C#, this contract is created by the use of the Interface keyword, which …
Indexer is a CLR language feature that allows array-like access to the properties of an object using getter and setter methods and an index value.
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Reflection
Method
Derived class
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IDL is a language used to describe object interfaces by their names, methods, parameters, events, and return types. A compiler uses the IDL information to generate code to pass data between machines. Microsoft’s IDL, called COM IDL, is compiled using the Microsoft IDL compiler (MIDL). MIDL generates both type libraries and proxy and stub code for marshaling parameters …