Glossary

A

Access Expression: an expression that controls whether the ViewModel is shown or not

Access Groups: these control what is visible and/or enabled for a user in a certain role or situation

Action buttons:

Action controls:

Action menu groups:

Action names:

Action language:

Actions: what a user or an API can execute to create an effect in the running system

Agile development

AngularJS: an open-source JavaScript framework that lets you build well-structured, easily testable, and maintainable front-end applications by using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern

API documentation:

AsString:

AssetsTK: the strategy to move files along with your model onto the server that runs your Turnkey application every time you upload your model

Association: the connection or relationship between Classes and Objects

Association classes:

Async Ticket: a pattern you can easily add to your model, backed by recent MDrivenServers

Attribute:

AutoForm:

Autofocus:

Autosave: when the content on the page is saved automatically

Autoguid: a DB-generated Guid value

Azure:

B

Bag:

BEM: BEM stands for Block, Element, Modifier. It is a convention on how to structure CSS rules.

Blazor: a web framework for building web UI components (Razor components) that can be hosted in different ways

Blob:

Boolean:

Bug:

C

Cache:

CodeDress: a function that allows you to write strongly typed C# code in Visual Studio and have that code implemented in a Turnkey site

Code generation:

Class: a group of objects with similar properties (attributes), common behaviour (operations), common relationships to other objects, and common meaning (“semantics”)

Class Actions: actions that always have the context or the root objects as the object of a class

Class Diagrams: shows classes and their relations

Collection:

Column:

Combobox: a picklist or dropdown list

Component:

Constraints: ways to introduce business rules in the model than using state machines and guards

Convergence:

CORS: an HTTP-header-based mechanism that allows a server to indicate any origins (domain, scheme, or port) other than its own from which a browser should permit loading resources

C-Sharp: a programming language developed by Microsoft that runs on the .NET Framework

CSS: (Cascading Style Sheets) allows you to control the formatting of your website

CSS Grid:

D

Data:

Database:

DateTime:

DB:

Debugger:

Decimal data type: a numerical data type used to represent decimal numbers with a fixed precision and scale

Deepclone

Derived attributes: calculated fields that subscribe to all the values they are calculated from

Derived associations:

DevOps (Development and Operations):

Diagram:

Domain Driven Design (DDD): the idea that the model should adhere to the terms and definitions of the domain the system is built for

E

EAL: when OCL language is used for action

ECO: the core engine for all MDriven applications that, given a UML model and a Persistence Mapper, will help any .net application handle the objects of that model in memory

Evolve:

F

Fashion: all the code to create a finish - the right look and feel

Float: a data type that represents a decimal number with floating-point precision

G

Gist: a type of code that describes what type of information the system is handling and which business rules guard the dynamics of that information

Global Actions: actions for the user to initiate something global in the always-available application

Grid: a flexible layout structure used to display and arrange various types of content, not necessarily limited to data

H

History Server:

HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML describes the structure of a Web page.

I

IIS:

Information models:

Information security:

Information systems:

Integer: a data type that represents whole numbers

J

JSON:

L

Linq:

LowCode / NoCode:

M

MCoins:

MDriven Designer: a UML modeling tool that allows you to capture sufficient details to cover every aspect of a software system

MDriven Framework: an MDriven tool that allows you to write strongly typed c# code, accessing all the types and classes from your model

MDriven Server:

MDriven Start:

MDriven Turnkey: a new way to develop internet applications

MDriven Portal:

Method:

MetaModel:

Mockotype: MDrivenDesigner started in simplified mode

Model:

Modernity: the code the infrastructure of a system needs to work

Modlr: a file format of MDriven Designer

MVC:

MySQL:

N

.net: a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.

Nuget:

Null: is empty - none*

O

OAuth:

OCL: the query and action language used in MDriven

OCL Expressions:

OCL Operator:

OCL PS: a subset of the OCL language that can be translated to SQL

OclSingleton: an operator that helps you implement the Singleton pattern

Object: an instance of a class

OpenDocument report:

OpenID: the protocol to negotiate authentication and get back an access token that your app can verify comes from your OpenId authority so that you may trust the information in the ticket - like the user-email maybe - or some claim that the user is admin or the like

Opting out Actions:

ORCID:

ORMapping:

P

Package: a "container" for a model section

Parse:

Periodic action: a ViewModel action that runs automatically over and over again when the Disabled expression is False

Persistence: the ability of a program or application to store and retrieve data even after the program is terminated or the system is shut down

Persistence mapping: a technique used in MDriven to map objects in an object-oriented programming language to relational database tables

Pivot tables:

PlacingContainer: a way to organize a view based on the box-in-box principle

Prototyping: the process in which you whip something together quickly as a mock-up to show or test it to learn something that otherwise would be hard to know

PSEval: an OCLOperator that makes it possible to use OCL PS in any OCL expression

Q

QR-Code:

QueryPlan: the ability to statically analyze a ViewModel to know ahead of time what data it will use

R

Realtime: communication done point to point at the time of need

Rest Services: services executed by connecting to a URL that defines operation and parameters and returns an answer – not seldom as JSON objects

Reverse derivation: when you use code (EAL) to process a composite value into separate parts when updating

S

Seeker:

Self:

selfVM: a variable that is available within the context of a ViewModel

Server:

Serverside actions: actions used when you want to delegate work to the server

Serverside jobs:

Set: a collection of something

SignalR: a .net software component used for Realtime communication

Singleton: the name of a design pattern that establishes a Class that will only have one object instance

SOAP:

Source code:

SQL: Structured Query Language to store and organize information in databases

SQLServer:

SQLite: a small database engine suitable to embed in applications as a data store for a single user

Snippets:

State Diagram: another way to describe the states of your domain with your information

State machine: helps us describe the different allowed states an object can be in and how it is transitioned between these states

String: a data type used to represent a sequence of characters

StylesInModel:

SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics - a great way to express data in a form other than text

SysAsyncTicket:

SysSingleton:

SysUser: System User

T

Tagexpander: discovers files in <YouModelFileName>_AssetsTK/Views/EXT_OverridePages that are named according to this pattern: <NameOfViewModel>.tagexpander.cshtml

Tag extensions:

TaggedValues: an extension mechanism that is available on all model elements in MDriven

Tajson: a declarative approach to receive, send, transform, and store json messages, with setup and maintenance environment done in minutes

Tiny MVC:

Tkusercss: a file in which you can introduce your new styles that match the names of the styles given in the ViewModel columns style attribute

Tuple: a word describing something “taped together from bits and pieces of other stuff”

U

UI: User interface

UML: a way to visualize the structure of a model

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

V

Validation rules: rules to help you improve the quality of the data recorded and applied by the user according to the standards you've specified

ValueStore:

vCurrent_: a variable that shows what the user has focused on/clicked on last in the ViewModel nestings

ViewModel: a UML model containing all the information of the application but doesn't have clear perspectives or views of how that information should be used

ViewModel Actions:

VistaDB: an embedded DB licensed from Gibraltar software

Visual Studio:

vSelected_: the variable shown when the user allows multi-select in grids in the ViewModel nestings

W

Web API:

WebApplication:

Web UI: a web user interface permits users to interact with software and other content running through a web browser

WECPOF: the prototyping ability and runtime assembly MDriven Framework users can use to get the Prototyping engine inside their own applications

WPF: Windows Presentation Foundation

X

Xamarin: a free and open-source mobile app platform for building native and high-performance iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS, macOS, and Windows apps in C#

XML: a software- and hardware-independent tool for storing and transporting data