ASP.NET Glossary

Resource

Resource is an addressable unit of data that is available for use by an application. Resources include text strings, files, documents, vector drawings, bitmapped images, binary data, data streams, message queues, and query result sets. In some contexts, application services themselves, such as Web services, are referred to as resources.

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Remoting

Remoting is a .NET technology that allows objects residing in different application domains to communicate. Objects using remoting may be on the same computer, or on different computers connected by a network.

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Reflection

Reflection is a feature that allows an application to query its own metadata. Reflection (System.Reflection) allows an application to discover information about itself so that it may display this information to the user, modify its own behavior by using late-binding and dynamic invocation (i.e., binding to and calling methods at runtime), or create new types at runtime (Reflection …

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Reference types

Reference types are the variables that stores a reference to data located elsewhere in memory rather than to the actual data itself. Reference types include array, class, delegate, and interface.

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Qualified identifiers

Qualified identifiers are two or more identifiers that are connected by a dot character (.). Only namespace declarations use qualified identifiers (e.g., System.Windows.Forms).

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Property

Property is a CLR language feature that allows the value of a single member variable to be modified using getter and setter methods defined in a class or structure.

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Pre-defined types

Pre-defined types are types defined by the CLR in the System namespace. The pre-defined values types are integer, floating point, decimal, character, and boolean values. Pre-defined reference types are object and string references.

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PE (Portable Executable)

Portable Executable (PE) file is the file format defining the structure that all executable files (EXE) and Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) must use to allow them to be loaded and executed by Windows. PE is derived from the Microsoft Common Object File Format (COFF). The EXE and DLL files created using the .NET Framework obey the PE/COFF formats …

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Pointer

Pointer is a variable that contains the address of a location in memory. The location is the starting point of an allocated object, such as an object or value type, or the element of an array.

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Private assembly

Private assembly is an assembly that is used only by a single application. A private assembly will run only with the application with which it was built and deployed. References to the private assembly will only be resolved locally to the application directory it is installed in.

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