CAS : Code Access Security.CCW : COM Callable Wrapper.

CIL : Common Intermediate Language - MSIL.

CLR : Common Language Runtime

CLS : Common Language Specifications

COFF : Common Object File Format – A file format.

COM : Component Object Model.

CSS : Cascading Style Sheets

CTS : Common Type Specifications

DNA : Distributed interNet Applications Architecture.

DOM : Document Object Model.

GAC : Global Assembly Cache.

GC : Garbage Collector.

GUID : Globally Unique Identifier.

JIT : Just In Time.

MS-DTC : Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator.

MSIL : Microsoft Intermediate Language.

PE : Portable Executable – A file format.

RAD : Rapid Application Development.

RCW : Runtime Callable Wrapper.

SAX : Simple API for XML

SMTP : Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol.

SSI : Server Side Includes

TCP : Transport Control Protocol.

TLB : Type Library.

UDDI : Universal Description, Discovery and Integration.

UDF : Uniform Data Format.

WSDL : Web Services Description Language.

XML : Extensible Markup Language

XSD : XML Schema Definition

XSLT : XML Stylesheet Language for Transformations