Microsoft Programming languages and frameworks

Active Directory is a full form of AD. It is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is used to store and manage information about network resources such as users, computers, printers, and other devices.

ActiveX is nothing but a technology that is developed by Microsoft Corporation in the year 1996. It is a part of the OLE Framework. It is a collection of components of prewritten softwares, that can be implemented within any web page or application. ActiveX facilitates programmers to add some additional functions to their website or software instead to write code from scratch.

The Full form of WPF is Windows Presentation Foundation. It is a free and open-source framework and the newest approach of Microsoft for user interfaces on the applications based on the Windows. It was previously knows as Avalon. It works with the .NET Framework, or you can say it is part of the .net framework. It is written in C#, C++ & C programming languages & one of the most powerful tools for developing windows applications.

The Full form of WCF is Windows Communication Foundation. It was previously known as Indigo. it is a type of tool, often used to deploy & implement SOA, (a service-oriented architecture.) This is written is C# Programming Language. WCF application is used to create an interoperable and distributed application. The application WCF came into existence in .NET 3.0 Framework. This framework is very popular & used for the making of service-oriented apps.

LINQ is the acronym for Language Integrated Query. It is a collection of standard query operators that adds native data querying facilities to .NET framework Languages like C#, VB.NET.

MVC is the short form for the model, view, and controller and parts the application into three components.The model represents the form of the data and business logic and maintains the data of the application. The view is a user interface to display data using the model to the user and also enables them to modify the data. The controller controls the user request, which in turn promotes the acceptable URL request, and this call will be handled by a controller.

ASP.NET is simply a web framework. It is designed or developed by Microsoft Corporation. This framework is widely used for the development of websites, web services, and web applications. Additionally, it provides outstanding integration of JavaScript, CSS and HTML. ASP.NET was released in January 2002 first time. This framework is built on CLR (Common Language Runtime) but allows developers to write code by using .NET supporting language.

C# is an object-oriented programming language. It is highly based on c and C++ programming languages. C Sharp is a multi-paradigm programming language that is developed by Microsoft Corporation. It is also strongly typed programmig language. C# reflects directly the underlying Common Language Infrastructure - CLI but does not state the code generation requirement of the compiler.

VB.NET is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft corporation in 2002. It is a simple network-enabled technology. It is designed to create mobile applications and a wide range of windows that are built on the .NET Framework. Along with that, it is considered the successor of VB 6.0, which is also implemented on the .NET framework of Microsoft.

ADO.NET is a data access technology developed by Microsoft as part of the .NET framework. It is a set of libraries that provide a consistent and efficient way to access and manipulate data from a variety of data sources such as relational databases, XML documents, and web services.

PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language developed by Microsoft. It is designed for system administrators and IT professionals to automate tasks and manage system configurations on Windows operating systems

.NET is an innovative software development tool from Microsoft. This has got various advantages that any other software does not have. For .NET interview Questions and Answers begin preparing right from the basics. Conceptual questions and technical questions are mostly expected. Microsoft's .NET is widely used in different web application development companies.

Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational mapping (ORM) framework developed by Microsoft. It allows developers to work with data in the form of domain-specific objects and properties, without needing to know the underlying database schema or SQL.