Asynchronous Input/Output, in computer science, is a form of input/output processing that permits other processing to continue before the transmission has finished.

A #define for either char or wchar_t, used for porting ancient windows applications

Electronic signatures are digital representations of a person's "wet" or "live" signature.

The ASP.NET profile feature associates information with an individual user and stores the information in a persistent format. Profiles allow you to manage user information without requiring you to create and maintain your own database. In addition, the ASP.NET profile feature makes the user information available using a strongly typed API that you can access from anywhere in your application.

REXX is a (most of the time) interpreted programming language developed by IBM in the end of 70's and beginning of 80's.

A countdown latch is a synchronization primitive that allows one or more threads to wait until a certain number of operations are completed on other threads.

The Script component hosts a .NET script and enables the SSIS package to include and run custom script code. The Script component provides an easy and quick way to include custom functions in a data flow.

LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) is a plain text data interchange format for LDAP data.

A transaction manager is the part of an application that is responsible for coordinating transactions across one or more resources.

A string pool allows a runtime to save memory by preserving immutable strings in a pool, so that instances of common strings can be reused throughout the application instead of creating multiple instances of them.