.Net Glossary

Browse 7 .net terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

7 .Net Terms

Blazor
A Microsoft framework for building interactive web UIs using C# and .NET instead of JavaScript, running either server-side via SignalR (Blazor Server) or...
Entity Framework
Microsoft's open-source ORM for .NET that lets developers work with databases using C# objects and LINQ queries instead of raw SQL. Entity Framework Core is...
LINQ
Language Integrated Query — a C#/.NET feature that adds SQL-like query syntax directly into the programming language for filtering, transforming, and...
NuGet
The official package manager for .NET, hosting over 300,000 packages and integrating with Visual Studio to manage library dependencies in C#, F#, and VB.NET...
NuGet Community
The ecosystem of users, maintainers, and package authors around NuGet, the package manager for .NET. In .NET culture, the NuGet community is a central source...
Platform Invoke
A .NET feature (P/Invoke) that allows managed C# or VB.NET code to call unmanaged C/C++ functions exported from native DLLs by declaring the external function...
Satellite Assembly
In .NET, a resource-only DLL that contains localized strings, images, or other culture-specific assets for a specific language or region. The CLR's...

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