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Glossary


A

Add-in

A dynamic-link library that lets you automate routine tasks in the Developer Studio environment. 4-2

Automation

A way to manipulate an application's objects from outside the application. 7-12

B

Browse information file

A file used by the source code browser and containing information about the symbols in your application. 6-17

C

Component Object Model (COM)

An open architecture for cross-platform development of client-server applications, based on object-oriented technology. 7-12

Configuration

Settings for a project. The configuration specifies such things as the type of application to build, target platform, and the settings to use when building, such as compiler and linker options. 6-7

D

Debug configuration

A configuration that contains full symbolic debugging information that can be used by the debugger. Typically, no optimization or minimal optimization is used. See also Release configuration. 6-7

Debugger

A tool that helps you check the logic of an executing program and examine or change variables at run time. 6-19

Docking window

A window that is docked (attached) along an edge of the visual development environment window and does not have a title bar. 6-6

Dynamic-link library (DLL)

A set of routines that can be called from procedures that are loaded into your application at run time. 6-3

F

Floating window

A window that can be moved and has a title bar. 6-6

L

Linker

A tool that links one or more object files into an executable. The Developer Studio linker supports incremental linking for faster builds following small changes to the set of source files. 6-2

P

Procedure interface definition

The properties of a procedure, in particular the specifications of the attributes for a function result, the specification of dummy argument attributes, and the information in the procedure heading. 7-13

Profiler

A tool for determining the execution frequency of various code paths. 6-2

Project

A set of source files required to build an application. Also see Workspace. 6-3

Project type

One of seven classifications for projects. Every Visual Fortran project must be one of these seven types. 6-3

R

Release configuration

A configuration that does not contain any symbolic debugging information. It does, however, contain default optimizations or your selected optimizations if you have overridden the defaults. See also Debug configuration. 6-7

Resource

Binary data added to an application's executable file. Examples are dialog boxes and icons. 6-5

Resource editor

A tool to help develop user-interface components such as dialog boxes, menus, and icons for your projects. 6-18

S

Source browser

A tool that lets you look at symbol usage in the source code and view graphs of calling relationships between functions. 6-17

Static library

A set of routines that can be called from procedures that are loaded into your application at link time. 6-3

W

Workspace

The container for one or more projects. The primary workspace file has the extension .dsw. 6-4


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