Gloassary

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AJAX

AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a term describing a web development technique for creating interactive web applications using a combination of: * HTML (or XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets for presenting information* Document Object Model, JavaScript to dynamically display and interact with the information presented* XML, XSLT and the XMLHttpRequest object to interchange and manipulate data asynchronously with the web server (although AJAX applications can use other technologies ...
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Cider

The code name for the Visual Designer in Visual Studio that targets WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)

Love

The code name for attention and understanding. We want everyone to feel the Cider love!

Orcas

The code name for a future release of Visual Studio (as in, the one after VS 2005)

Hawaii

The code name for a future, future release of Visual Studio (as in, the one after the one after VS 2005)

Avalon

Windows Presentation Foundation, or WPF

WPF

Windows Presentation Foundation, the next generation of Windows UI

CTP

Community Technology Preview, an early-release drop of a future product. The level of quality is pretty non-deterministic, definitely below beta quality, but we're working on process improvements to raise the quality level without reducing frequency of CTP.

VS

Visual Studio, the professional development tool from Microsoft.

WinFX

The "Windows Framework", a managed code set of Windows-based technologies that builds on top of the .NET Framework 2.0. It includes WPF, WCF, etc. See the WinFX dev center on MSDN.

msft

One of the ways that some people, including NASDAQ, abbreviate Microsoft.

Sparkle

The Expression Interaction Designer, a member of the Expression suite.

XAML

The XML format that describes a set of avalon objects and properties. It stands for the "eXtensible Application Markup Language".