| AJAX | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML | http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-applications |
| ATOM | The Atom Publishing protocol is an HTTP-based approach for creating and editing Web resources. | http://www.atomenabled.org/ |
| CDSL | Conceptual Schema Definition Language | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399292.aspx |
| FetchXML | A proprietary query language that is used in Microsoft Dynamics CRM | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg328332.aspx |
| jQuery | A fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development | http://jquery.com/ |
| Jscript | The Microsoft implementation of the ECMA 262 language specification | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hbxc2t98.aspx |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation | http://www.json.org/ |
| LINQ | Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is a set of features introduced in Visual Studio 2008 that extends powerful query capabilities to the language syntax of C# and Visual Basic | http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397926.aspx |
| ODATA | Open Data Protocol | http://www.odata.org/ |
| REST | Representational state transfer | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer |
| Silverlight | An application framework for running interactive user experiences for Web an mobile applications | http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol | http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier | http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ |
| WCF | Windows Communication Foundation | http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ee958158.aspx |
| WSDL | Wed Services Description Language | http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language | http://www.w3.org/XML/ |
| XmlHttpRequest | An API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server | http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/ |