A Microsoft operating system platform that incorporates applications, a suite of tools and services and a change in the infrastructure of the company's Web strategy.
There are four main principles of .NET from the perspective of the user:
It erases the boundaries between applications and the Internet. Instead of interacting with an application or a single Web site, .NET will connect the user to an array of computers and services that will exchange and combine objects and data.
Software will be rented as a hosted service over the Internet instead of purchased on a store shelf. Essentially, the Internet will be housing all your applications and data.
Users will have access to their information on the Internet from any device, anytime, anywhere.
There will be new ways to interact with application data, such as speech and handwriting recognition.
.NET depends on four Internet standards:
HTTP
XML
SOAP
UDDI
The first Windows .NET operating system is expected to be released in 2001. Microsoft views this new technology as revolutionary, enabling Internet users to do things that were never before possible, such as integrate fax, e-mail and phone services, centralize data storage and synchronize all of a users computing devices to be automatically updated.
The full Internet address of a page or other World Wide Web resource. The absolute URL includes a protocol, such as "http," network location, and optional path and file name. For example, http://frontpagewiz.com/default.asp is an absolute URL
A hyperlink that is currently selected in a Web browser. The color and decoration (underline)normally changes, the default value for the color is red, although it can be anything.
A set of technologies that enables software components to interact with one another in a networked environment, regardless of the language in which the components were created. ActiveX is used primarily to develop interactive content for the World Wide Web, although it can be used in desktop applications and other programs.
Reusable software components that incorporate ActiveX technology. ActiveX controls can be embedded in Web pages to produce animation and other multimedia effects, interactive objects, and sophisticated applications. They can be written in a variety of programming languages, including C, C++, and Visual Basic.
A file containing a series of GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) graphics that are displayed in rapid sequence in a Web browser, giving the appearance of a moving picture. See also GIF
The ability to access a remote computer system on which one does not have an account, via the Internet's File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Users have restricted access rights with anonymous FTP and usually can only list, view, or copy files to or from a public directory on the remote system. Many FTP sites do not permit anonymous FTP access in order to maintain security. See also FTP
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Applet
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See Java Applet
A program designed to be executed from within another application. Unlike an application, applets cannot be executed directly from the operating system. With the growing popularity of OLE (object linking and embedding), applets are becoming more prevalent. A well-designed applet can be invoked from many different applications.
Web browsers, which are often equipped with Java virtual machines, can interpret applets from Web servers. Because applets are small in files size, cross-platform compatible, and highly secure (can't be used to access users' hard drives), they are ideal for small Internet applications accessible from a browser.
Acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Pronounced ask-ee, ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII code for uppercase M is 77. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer to another.
For a list of commonly used characters and their ASCII equivalents, refer to the ASCII page in the Quick Reference section.
Text files stored in ASCII format are sometimes called ASCII files. Text editors and word processors are usually capable of storing data in ASCII format, although ASCII format is not always the default storage format. Most data files, particularly if they contain numeric data, are not stored in ASCII format. Executable programs are never stored in ASCII format.
The standard ASCII character set uses just 7 bits for each character. There are several larger character sets that use 8 bits, which gives them 128 additional characters. The extra characters are used to represent non-English characters, graphics symbols, and mathematical symbols. Several companies and organizations have proposed extensions for these 128 characters. The DOS operating system uses a superset of ASCII called extended ASCII or high ASCII. A more universal standard is the ISO Latin 1 set of characters, which is used by many operating systems, as well as Web browsers.
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ASP
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Active Server Pages (ASP) (ASP: Active Server Pages. A server-side scripting technology that is used to create dynamic interactive Web applications. An ASP file is an HTML page containing scripts that are processed by a Web server before being sent to a browser.), you can create Web pages to view and search database records.
tool that creates a thumbnail of a picture or photograph and a hyperlink to the original picture. The Picture toolbar in Page view contains the Auto Thumbnail command.
bug Last modified: Wednesday, July 16, 2003
An error or defect in software or hardware that causes a program to malfunction. Often a bug is caused by conflicts in software when applications try to run in tandem. According to folklore, the first computer bug was an actual bug. Discovered in 1945 at Harvard, a moth trapped between two electrical relays of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator caused the whole machine to shut down.
The DRW is a powerful FrontPage component that allows FrontPage users to create Dynamic web applications (database driven) by simply creating a form and linking it to a database that FrontPage can also build. The wizard is very flexible allowing many different types of applications. With some minor ASP and SQL knowledge it can be adapted to do just about anything you see on the web.
Acronym for Database Results Wizard
The DRW is a powerful FrontPage component that allows FrontPage users to create Dynamic web applications (database driven) by simply creating a form and linking it to a database that FrontPage can also build. The wizard is very flexible allowing many different types of applications. With some minor ASP and SQL knowledge it can be adapted to do just about anything you see on the web.
Pronounced jiff or giff (hard g) stands for graphics interchange format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used by the World Wide Web, CompuServe and many BBSs. GIF supports color and various resolutions. It also includes data compression, but because it is limited to 256 colors, it is more effective for scanned images such as illustrations rather than color photos.
In database management systems (DBMSs), an operation that is stored with the database server. Typically, stored procedures are written in SQL. They're especially important for client-server database systems because storing the procedure on the server side means that it is available to all clients. And when the procedure is modified, all clients automatically get the new version
A named subdirectory of the root web that is a complete FrontPage-based web. Each subweb can have independent administration, authoring and browsing permissions from the root web and other subwebs. In addition, searches implemented through the FrontPage-based search form are limited to the subweb, and FrontPage only manages hyperlinks within the subweb. Any number of subwebs can be created under the root web, and subwebs can be created within subwebs.
Pronounced WIZ-zee-wig. Short for what you see is what you get. A WYSIWYG application is one that enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the document is printed. This differs, for example, from word processors that are incapable of displaying different fonts and graphics on the display screen even though the formatting codes have been inserted into the file. WYSIWYG is especially popular for desktop publishing.