Glossary

Chapter 1

ADO.Net

A Microsoft data-access programming interface technology shipped as part of the Microsoft .NET base class libraries. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADO.NET for more details.

C#

Pronounced “cee sharp,” C# is a managed programming language released as part of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. C# is an object-oriented language and draws inspiration from C++, Delphi, and Java. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language) for more details.

delegate

Can be thought of as a typed-safe reference to a method. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegate_(.NET) for more details.

Domain Specific Language (DSL)

A domain-specific language is a programming language specific to an individual problem domain. Conversely, ...

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