For a preparation for a MCTS certification for NET Framework 2.0 - Application Development Foundation, I had to write some programming terms that will occur in the exam.

Programming terms
Term	Description
Boxing	Converting from a value type to a reference type, which often occurs implicitly.
Cast	A conversion from one type to another.
Constraint	A condition on a type parameter that restricts the type argument you can supply for it. A constraint can require that the type argument implement a particular interface, be or inherit from a particular class, have an accessible parameterless constructor, or be a reference type or a value type. You can combine these constraints, but you can specify at most one class.
Contract	Defines a common set of members that all classes that implement the interface must provide.
Exception	Unexpected events that interrupt normal execution of an assembly.
Generic Type	A single programming element that adapts to perform the same functionality for a variety of data types.
Heap	Area of memory where reference types are stored.
Narrowing	Converting a value from one type to another when the destination type can’t accommodate all possible values from the source type. These conversions must be explicit in C# and in Visual Basic if Option Strict is on.
Signature	The return type, parameter count, and parameter types of a member.
Stack	An area of memory where value types are stored.
Unboxing	Converting back from a reference type to a value type after boxing has occurred.
Widening	Converting a value from one type to another when the destination type can accommodate all possible values from the source type. These conversions can be implicit.

 

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