Glossary

.Net Remoting

Adobe Flex

Agile Software Development

Analysis Services

ASCII

Binary

Bounce Rate

Boxing

Boxing and unboxing enable value types to be treated as objects. Boxing a value type packages it inside 
an instance of the Object reference type. This allows the value type to be stored on the garbage
collected heap. Unboxing extracts the value type from the object. In this example, the integer variable 
i is boxed and assigned to object o.

int i = 123;
object o = (object) i;  // boxing

The object o can then be unboxed and assigned to integer variable i:

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o = 123;
i = (int) o;  // unboxing

Browser

Business Incubators

COM +

DCOM

Delegate

A delegate is a special class that represents a method signature. They are used to implement callbacks and events in VB.Net (EX: "Notify me when it is my turn to").

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020815.htm

Distributed Applications

Email

File Paths

Absolute Path: src="http://www.12Bravo.com/images/logo.gif"

Relative Path

    Document Relative: src="images/logo.gif"

    Root Relative: src="/images/title.gif"

Windows Explorer: \\bravoweb02.vpn.12bravo.com\z$\web\client01

Google

GoTo

Independent Software Vendor

Internet

L.A.M.P.

LINQ

MAC Address

Macromedia

Macromedia Flash

Method Signature

Micro ISV

Microsoft Management Summit

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 provides event-driven operations monitoring, performance tracking, security policy enforcement, and auditing capability.

System Center Operations Manager 2007 was designed from a fresh code base, and although sharing similarities to Microsoft Operations Manager, is not an upgrade from the previous versions.

MVC

ASP.NET MVC is a Microsoft-supported framework for creating ASP.NET applications using a Model-View-Controller pattern. In a nutshell, ASP.NET MVC allows developers much finer control over the markup rendered by their web pages, a greater and clearer separation of concerns, better testability, and cleaner, more SEO-friendly URLs.

ASP.NET Routing is a library that was introduced in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that decouples the URL from a physical file; it is used extensively in ASP.NET MVC web applications. With ASP.NET Routing you, the developer, define routing rules that indicate what route patterns map to what physical files.

MySpace

Overload

A feature found in various programming languages such as Ada, .Net, C++ and Java that allows the creation of several functions with the same name which differ from each other in terms of the type of the input and the type of the output of the function.

Public Function GetPersonInfo(ByVal v_sFirstName As String)

End Function

Public Function GetPersonInfo(ByVal v_lPersonId As Long)

End Function

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Refactoring

Resume Next

Service Oriented Architecture

In computing, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a flexible set of design principles used during the phases of systems development and integration. A deployed SOA-based architecture will provide a loosely-integrated suite of services that can be used within multiple business domains.

For example, several disparate departments within a company may develop and deploy SOA services in different implementation languages; their respective clients will benefit from a well understood, well defined interface to access them. XML is commonly used for interfacing with SOA services, though this is not required.

Silverlight

Software Development Cycle (SDLC)

The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), or Software Development Life Cycle in systems engineering, information systems and software engineering, is the process of creating or altering systems, and the models and methodologies that people use to develop these systems.

Analyze => Design => Develop => Test => Deploy => Maintain

SqlDataSource: QueryStringParameter

Strongly Typed

Systems Integrator

A systems integrator is a person or company that specializes in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together, a practice known as System Integration. Systems integrators may work in many fields but the term is generally used in the information technology (IT) field, the defense industry, or in media.

According to the Institute for Partner Education & Development, systems integrators traditionally realizes approximately 50 percent of revenue from consulting services and 40 percent of revenue from IT services in design, implementation and post-transaction consulting. They are different from an IT Consultant in that they also take title to product.

TCP/IP

TechEd

Tech·Ed is an annual conference for developers and IT professionals put on by Microsoft. It is held in several locations around the world. First time held in 1993 in Orlando, FL.

The conference normally lasts between 3 and 5 days, and consists of presentation and whiteboard sessions and hands-on labs. There are opportunities to meet Microsoft experts, MVP's and community members are enhanced through parties, community areas and Ask the Expert sessions. The event also includes an exhibition area where vendors can show off technologies and sell products.

http://www.msteched.com

Unit Testing

Value Type

Venture vs Angel

An angel investor or angel (also known as a business angel or informal investor) is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. A small but increasing number of angel investors organize themselves into angel groups or angel networks to share research and pool their investment capital.

Angel investment is a common second round of financing (friends and family the first round) for high-growth start-ups, and accounts in total for almost as much money invested annually as all venture capital funds combined, but into more than ten times as many companies (US$26 billion vs. $30.69 billion in the US in 2007, into 57,000 companies vs. 3,918 companies).

Angels typically invest their own funds, unlike venture capitalists, who manage the pooled money of others in a professionally-managed fund.

To put it simply, an investment firm will give money to a growing company. The growing company will then use this money to advertise, do research, build infrastructure, develop products etc. The investment firm is called a venture capital firm, and the money that it gives is called venture capital. The venture capital firm makes money by owning a stake in the firm it invests in.

Visual Developer Express

A freeware web development tool that allows developers to evaluate the web development and editing 
capabilities of the other Visual Studio 2008 editions at no charge. Its main function is to create 
ASP.NET websites.

Waterfall Software Development Methodology

WWW

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