Dear all,
Here is some useful acronyms
CCW COM Callable Wrapper
CLI Common Language Infrastructure. This is a subset of the CLR and base class libraries that Microsoft has submitted to ECMA so that a third-party vendor can build a .NET runtime on another platform.
CLR Common Language Runtime
CLS Common Language Specification
COFF Common Object File Format
COM Component Object Model
CTS Common Type System
DISCO Discovery of Web Services. A Web Service has one or more. DISCO files that contain information on how to access its WSDL.
DNA Distributed interNet Applications Architecture.
DOM Document Object Model
GDI Graphical Device Interface
GAC Global Assembly Cache
GUID Globally Unique Identifier
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IDL Interface Definition Language
IL Intermediate Language
MSIL Microsoft Intermediate Language
MS-DTC Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
N-Tier Multi-Tier
OLTP Online Transaction Processing
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
PE Portable Executable
RAD Rapid Application Development
RCW Runtime Callable Wrapper
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
TCP Transport Control Protocol
TLB Type Library
UDF Uniform Data Format
UI User Interface
URL Uniform Resource Locator
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
WAP Wireless Access Protocol
WSDL Web Services Definition Language
WML Wireless Markup Language
XML Extensible Markup Language
