ASP.NET Glossary

Exception

Signal that is generated when an unplanned or unexpected event occurs is called Exception. Exceptions are typically caught by an exception handler and dealt with in an appropriate way. A fatal exception (also named a critical or catastrophic error) is an event that cannot be properly handled to allow the application—or the operating system—to continue running.

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Event Handler

Event Handler is a function or method containing program statements that are executed in response to an event.

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Event

Event is a notification by a program or operating system that “something has happened.” An event may be raised in response to the occurrence of a pre-defined action (e.g., a user clicking a button, a program starting up or shutting down, a timer indicating a specific interval of time has passed). An event handler is called in response …

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Exception Management

Exceptions are an inevitable part of the development process, and applications should handle exceptions gracefully to avoid damaging your application’s credibility with users. You can even log exceptions and use that information to your advantage to help identify problem areas and manage user perception by responding to issues before customers have a chance to contact you to complain.

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DTD (Document Type Definition)

This a document defining the format of the contents present between the tags in an HTML, XML, or SGML document, and how the content should be interpreted by the application reading the document. Applications will use a document’s DTD to properly read and display a document’s contents.

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Download Cache

Download Cache is a part of the assembly cache used to store information downloaded from the public internet or a private network. Objects in the download cache are effectively isolated from all other assemblies loaded into other assembly caches.

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Destructor

In traditional OOP, a destructor is a class method that is called when an object goes out of scope. In .NET languages, the destructor method is instead called when the object is garbage collected by the CLR—which happens at some indeterminate time after an object goes out of scope. In C#, the destructor is actually a syntactic mapping …

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Derived class

A class that was created based on a previously existing class (i.e., base class). A derived class inherits all of the member variables and methods of the base class it is derived from. Also called a derived type.

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Delegate

Developers may implement event handling in .NET Framework code with mechanism named delegate. A class that needs to raise events must define one delegate per event. Types that use the class must implement one event handler method per event that must be processed.

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Data provider

Data provider is a set of classes in the .NET Framework that allow access to the information in a data source. The data may be located in a file, in the Windows registry, or any type of database server or network resource. A .NET data provider also allows information in a data source to be accessed as an …

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