ADO.Net .Net's adaptation of ADO for accessing data sources.
ASP Active Server Pages.
ASP.Net .Net's object oriented adaptation of ASP for accessing web pages.
ATL Active Template Library for C++.
CCW COM Callable Wrapper.
CLI Common Language Infrastructure.
CLR Common Language Runtime.
CLS Common Language Specification.
COFF Common Object File Format.
COM Common Object Model.
COM Interop Common Object Model Interoperation.
COM+ 2.0 Runtime Depreciated name for Common Language Runtime.
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Java).
CTS Common Type System.
DB Database.
DCOM Distibuted Component Object Model.
DISCO Discovery of Web Services. A file that tells a Web Service how to access its WSDL.
DISPID Used in COM to identify a method of property for dynamic invocation.
DLL Dynamic Linked Library.
DNA Distributed interNet Applications Architecture.
DOM Document Object Model.
GAC Global Assembly Cache.
GC Garbage Collector.
GDI Graphical Device Interface.
GDI+ A .Net library that provides graphics management.
GUID Globally unique identifier.
IDE Integrated Development Environment.
IDL Interface Development Language.
IID Interface Identifier.
IIS Interface Information Server.
IL Intermediate Language.
ILASM Intermediate Language Disassembler.
ISAPI Information Server Application Programming Interface.
JIT Just In time Compiler.
MBR Marshal-by-reference.
MBV Marshal-by-value.
MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes.
MTS Microsoft Transaction Server.
OptJIT Optimized JIT Compiler.
PE Portable Executable.
RCW Runtime Callable Wrapper.
RMI Remove Method Invocation (Java).
RPC Remote Procedure Call.
SCL SOAP Contact Language.
SEH Structured Exception Handling.
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol.
SQL Structured Query Language.
STL Standard Template Library.
TLB Type Library.
UDDI Uniform Discription, Discovery and Identification Service.
UDF Uniform Data Format.
VB Visual Basic.
VS.NET Visual Studio .NET.
Win32 Windows 32-bit.
WSDL Windows Services Description Language.
XML Extensible Markup Language.
XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language.
XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.