microsoft.csharp Package |
The microsoft.csharp package contains classes that support compilation and code generation using the C# language. |
microsoft.SqlServer.Server Package |
The package contains classes, interfaces, and enumerations that are specific to the integration of the Microsoft .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR) into Microsoft SQL Server, and the SQL Server database engine process execution environment. |
microsoft.visualbasic Package |
The package contains types that support the Visual Basic Runtime in Visual Basic. |
microsoft.win32 Package |
The package provides two types of classes: those that handle events raised by the operating system and those that manipulate the system registry. |
microsoft.win32.safehandles Package |
The package contains classes that are abstract derivations of safe handle classes that provide common functionality supporting file and operating system handles. |
system Package |
The system package contains fundamental classes and base classes that define commonly-used value and reference data types, events and event handlers, interfaces, attributes, and processing exceptions. |
system.codeDom Package |
The system.codeDom package contains classes that can be used to represent the elements and structure of a source code document. The classes in this package can be used to model the structure of a source code document that can be output as source code in a supported language using the functionality provided by the system.codeDom.Compiler package. |
system.codeDom.compiler Package |
The system.codeDom.Compiler package contains types for managing the generation and compilation of source code in supported programming languages. Code generators can each produce source code in a particular programming language based on the structure of Code Document Object Model (CodeDOM) source code models consisting of elements provided by the system.codeDom package. |
system.collections Package |
The package contains interfaces and classes that define various collections of objects, such as lists, queues, bit arrays, hash tables and dictionaries. |
system.collections.Concurrent Package |
The system.collections.Concurrent package provides several thread-safe collection classes that should be used in place of the corresponding types in the
system.collections and system.collections.Generic packages whenever multiple threads are accessing the collection concurrently. However, access to elements
of a collection object through extension methods or through explicit interface implementations are not guaranteed to be thread-safe and may need to be synchronized by the caller. |
system.collections.Generic Package |
The package contains interfaces and classes that define generic collections, which allow users to create strongly typed collections that provide better type safety and performance than non-generic strongly typed collections. |
system.collections.ObjectModel Package |
The package contains classes that can be used as collections in the object model of a reusable library. Use these classes when properties or methods return collections. |
system.collections.Specialized Package |
The system.collections.Specialized package contains specialized and strongly-typed collections; for example, a linked list dictionary, a bit vector, and collections that contain only strings. |
system.componentModel Package |
The system.componentModel package provides classes that are used to implement the run-time and design-time behavior of components and controls. This package includes the base classes and interfaces for implementing attributes and type converters, binding to data sources, and licensing components. |
system.componentModel.Composition Package |
This package provides classes that constitute the core of the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF. |
system.componentModel.Composition.Hosting Package |
The package provides Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) types that are useful to developers of extensible applications, or hosts. |
system.componentModel.Composition.Primitives Package |
This package provides the primitive types underlying the MEF programming model. |
system.componentModel.Composition.Primitives Package |
This package provides the primitive types underlying the MEF programming model. |
system.componentModel.Composition.ReflectionModel Package |
The package provides Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) types for developers who use a reflection-based programming model. |
system.componentModel.Composition.Registration Package |
The system.componentModel.Composition.Registration package contains types that enable rule-based configuration of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) parts. |
system.componentModel.DataAnnotations Package |
The system.componentModel.DataAnnotations package provides attribute classes that are used to define metadata for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET data controls. |
system.componentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema Package |
The system.componentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema package provides support for attribute classes that are used to define metadata for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET data controls. |
system.componentModel.Design Package |
The package contains classes that developers can use to build custom design-time behavior for components and user interfaces for configuring components at design time. The design time environment provides systems that enable developers to arrange components and configure their properties. Some components may require specific design-time only behavior to function properly in a design time environment. It may also be valuable to provide custom user interfaces which assist developers in configuring components or the values of complex data types. The classes and interfaces defined within this package can be used to build design-time behavior for components, access design-time services, and implement customized design-time configuration interfaces. |
system.componentModel.Design.Data Package |
The system.componentModel.Design.Data package contains classes you can use to build custom design-time behavior for data-related components. |
system.componentModel.Design.Serialization Package |
The package provides types that support customization and control of serialization at design time. |
system.configuration Package |
The system.configuration package contains the types that provide the programming model for handling configuration data. |
system.configuration.Assemblies Package |
The system.configuration.Assemblies package contains classes that are used to configure an assembly. |
system.configuration.Install Package |
The system.configuration.Install package provides classes that allow you to write custom installers for your own components. The Installer class is the base class for all custom installers in the .NET Framework. |
system.configuration.Internal Package |
The system.configuration.Internal package contains configuration types that are intended for internal use only. |
system.configuration.Provider Package |
The system.configuration.Provider package contains the base classes shared by both server and client applications to support a pluggable model to easily add or remove functionality. |
system.data Package |
The package provides access to classes that represent the ADO.NET architecture. ADO.NET lets you build components that efficiently manage data from multiple data sources. |
system.data.Common Package |
The system.data.Common package contains classes shared by the .NET Framework data providers. |
system.data.Common.CommandTrees Package |
The package provides classes to build expressions that make up a command tree. |
system.data.Common.CommandTrees.ExpressionBuilder Package |
The system.data.Common.CommandTrees.ExpressionBuilder package provides a command tree API. |
system.data.Common.CommandTrees.ExpressionBuilder.Spatial Package |
The package contains a class that represent the Entity Data Model (EDM) functions of a spatial. |
system.data.Common.EntitySql Package |
The package includes the class and other support classes. These classes enable you to parse an Entity SQL query string and create a command tree query. |
system.data.Design Package |
The system.data.Design package contains classes that can be used to generate a custom typed-dataset. |
system.data.Entity.Design Package |
The package contains classes to generate Entity Data Model (EDM) files and object source code. |
system.data.Entity.Design.AspNet Package |
The system.data.Entity.Design.AspNet package contains the Entity Data Model (EDM) build providers for the ASP.NET build environment. |
system.data.Entity.Design.PluralizationServices Package |
The system.data.Entity.Design.PluralizationServices package provides classes for changing words from singular to plural form, and vice versa. |
system.data.EntityClient Package |
The system.data.EntityClient package is the .NET Framework Data Provider for the Entity Framework. |
system.data.Linq Package |
The package contains classes that support interaction with relational databases in LINQ to SQL applications. |
system.data.Linq.Mapping Package |
The package contains classes that are used to generate a LINQ to SQL object model that represents the structure and content of a relational database. |
system.data.Linq.SqlClient Package |
The package contains provider classes for communicating with SQL Server and classes that contain query helper methods. |
system.data.Linq.SqlClient.Implementation Package |
The system.data.Linq.SqlClient.Implementation package contains types that are used for the internal implementation details of a SQL Server provider. |
system.data.Mapping Package |
The package provides access to the and classes. |
system.data.Metadata.Edm Package |
The package contains a set of types that represent concepts throughout the models used by the Entity Framework and a set of classes that help applications to work with metadata. |
system.data.Objects Package |
The system.data.Objects package includes classes that provide access to the core functionality of Object Services. These classes enable you to query, insert, update, and delete data by working with strongly typed CLR objects that are instances of entity types. Object Services supports both Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) and Entity SQL queries against types that are defined in an Entity Data Model (EDM). Object Services materializes the returned data as objects and propagates object changes back to the data source. It also provides facilities for tracking changes, binding objects to controls, and handling concurrency. For more information, see Object Services Overview (Entity Framework). |
system.data.Objects.DataClasses Package |
The system.data.Objects.DataClasses package includes classes that are base classes for types that are defined in an Entity Data Model (EDM), base classes for the types that are returned by navigation properties, and classes that define attributes that map common language runtime (CLR) objects to types in the conceptual model. |
system.data.Objects.SqlClient Package |
The package provides the class, which contains common language runtime (CLR) methods that translate to database functions. Methods in the class can only be used in LINQ to Entities queries. |
system.data.Odbc Package |
The system.data.Odbc package is the .NET Framework Data Provider for ODBC. |
system.data.OleDb Package |
The package is the.NET Framework Data Provider for OLE DB. |
system.data.OracleClient Package |
The package is the .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle. |
system.data.Services Package |
Provides access to classes used to build WCF Data Services. |
system.data.Services.BuildProvider Package |
Classes in this package generate C# or Visual Basic code for a WCF Data Services client application based on the metadata returned by the data service. |
system.data.Services.Client Package |
Represents the .NET Framework client library that applications can use to interact with WCF Data Services. |
system.data.Services.Common Package |
Implements functionality common to both WCF Data Services client and server runtimes. |
system.data.Services.Configuration Package |
This package provides configuration settings for WCF data services features. |
system.data.Services.Design Package |
Used by the code generation command line tools and tools in Visual Studio to generate strongly-typed client side objects for communicating with data services. |
system.data.Services.Internal Package |
This class is not for public use and is used internally by the system to implement support for queries with eager loading of related entities. |
system.data.Services.Providers Package |
Provides a series of interfaces that are implemented to define a custom data service provider for WCF Data Services. |
system.data.Spatial Package |
The system.data.Spatial package that contains classes of spatial database functionality. |
system.data.Sql Package |
The package contains classes that support SQL Server-specific functionality. |
system.data.SqlClient Package |
The package is the .NET Data Provider for SQL Server. |
system.data.SqlTypes Package |
The system.data.SqlTypes package provides classes for native data types in SQL Server. These classes provide a safer, faster alternative to the data types provided by the .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR). Using the classes in this package helps prevent type conversion errors caused by loss of precision. Because other data types are converted to and from SqlTypes behind the scenes, explicitly creating and using objects within this package also yields faster code. |
system.deployment.Application Package |
With the system.deployment.Application package, you can program custom upgrade behavior into your ClickOnce application. |
system.deployment.Internal Package |
The package contains helper classes for accessing the internal members of and objects. |
system.deployment.Internal.CodeSigning Package |
The package contains classes for processing digital signatures. |
system.device.Location Package |
The package allows application developers to easily access the computer's location by using a single API. Location information may come from multiple providers, such as GPS, Wi-Fi triangulation, and cell phone tower triangulation. The classes provide a single API to encapsulate the multiple location providers on a computer and support seamless prioritization and transitioning between them. As a result, application developers who use this API do not need to tailor applications to specific hardware configurations. |
system.diagnostics Package |
The package provides classes that allow you to interact with system processes, event logs, and performance counters. |
system.diagnostics.CodeAnalysis Package |
The system.diagnostics.CodeAnalysis package contains classes for interaction with code analysis tools. These tools are used to analyze code for conformance to coding conventions such as naming or security rules. |
system.diagnostics.Contracts Package |
The package contains static classes for representing program contracts such as preconditions, postconditions, and invariants. |
system.diagnostics.Contracts.Internal Package |
The package provides classes that the binary rewriter can use to handle a contract failure. |
system.diagnostics.Design Package |
The system.diagnostics.Design package contains classes that can be used to extend design-time support for application monitoring and instrumentation. |
system.diagnostics.Eventing Package |
Contains the classes used to instrument your application. The instrumentation, when enabled, logs the event data to the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) tracing subsystem. For a complete description of ETW, see Event Tracing for Windows. |
system.diagnostics.Eventing.Reader Package |
Using the system.diagnostics.Eventing.Reader package, you can develop applications that read and manage event logs. An event in an event log contains information, a warning, or an error that has been published by a specific application, service, or operating system component. These events are read by applications that monitor a computer's health and applications that take action when specific events occur. For more information, see Technology Summary for Reading and Managing Event Logs and Event Log Scenarios. |
system.diagnostics.PerformanceData Package |
Use the classes in this package to provide counter data. The counters are used to expose performance metrics to consumers such as the Performance Monitor. The package does not contain classes for consuming the counter data. For a complete description of the performance counters architecture, see Performance Counters. |
system.diagnostics.SymbolStore Package |
The system.diagnostics.SymbolStore package provides classes that allow you to read and write debug symbol information, such as source line to Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) maps. Compilers targeting the.NET Framework can store the debug symbol information into programmer's database (PDB) files. Debuggers and code profiler tools can read the debug symbol information at run time. |
system.diagnostics.Tracing Package |
The package provides types and members that enable you to create strongly typed events to be captured by event tracing for Windows (ETW). |
system.directoryServices Package |
The system.directoryServices package provides easy access to Active Directory Domain Services from managed code. The package contains two component classes, DirectoryEntry and DirectorySearcher, which use the Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI) technology. ADSI is the set of interfaces that Microsoft provides as a flexible tool for working with a variety of network providers. ADSI gives the administrator the ability to locate and manage resources on a network with relative ease, regardless of the size of the network. |
system.directoryServices.AccountManagement Package |
The system.directoryServices.AccountManagement package provides uniform access and manipulation of user, computer, and group security principals across the multiple principal stores: Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS), and Machine SAM (MSAM). system.directoryServices.AccountManagement manages directory objects independent of the system.directoryServices package. |
system.directoryServices.ActiveDirectory Package |
The system.directoryServices.ActiveDirectory package provides a high level abstraction object model that builds around Microsoft Active Directory services tasks. The Active Directory service concepts such as forest, domain, site, subnet, partition, and schema are part of the object model. |
system.directoryServices.Protocols Package |
The package provides the methods defined in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version 3 (V3) and Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) version 2.0 (V2) standards. |
system.drawing Package |
The system.drawing package provides access to GDI+ basic graphics functionality. More advanced functionality is provided in the system.drawing.Drawing2D, system.drawing.Imaging, and system.drawing.Text packages. |
system.drawing.Configuration Package |
The package contains a class that supports configuration for classes in the package. |
system.drawing.Design Package |
The package contains classes that extend design-time user interface (UI) logic and drawing. |
system.drawing.Drawing2D Package |
The package provides advanced two-dimensional and vector graphics functionality. |
system.drawing.Imaging Package |
The system.drawing.Imaging package provides advanced GDI+ imaging functionality. Basic graphics functionality is provided by the system.drawing package. |
system.drawing.Printing Package |
The system.drawing.Printing package provides print-related services for Windows Forms applications. |
system.drawing.Text Package |
The package provides advanced GDI+ typography functionality. |
system.dynamic Package |
The system.dynamic package provides classes and interfaces that support Dynamic Language Runtime. |
system.enterpriseServices Package |
The system.enterpriseServices package provides an important infrastructure for enterprise applications. COM+ provides a services architecture for component programming models deployed in an enterprise environment. This package provides .NET objects with access to COM+ services making the .NET Framework objects more practical for enterprise applications. |
system.enterpriseServices.CompensatingResourceManager Package |
The system.enterpriseServices.CompensatingResourceManager package provides classes that allow you to use a Compensating Resource Manager (CRM) in managed code. A CRM is a service provided by COM+ that enables you to include non transactional objects in Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) transactions. Although CRMs do not provide the capabilities of a full resource manager, they do provide transactional atomicity (all or nothing behavior) and durability through the recovery log. |
system.enterpriseServices.Internal Package |
The package provides infrastructure support for COM+ services. The classes and interfaces in this package are specifically intended to support calls into from the unmanaged COM+ classes. |
system.globalization Package |
The package contains classes that define culture-related information, including language, country/region, calendars in use, format patterns for dates, currency, and numbers, and sort order for strings. These classes are useful for writing globalized (internationalized) applications. Classes such as and provide advanced globalization functionalities, including surrogate support and text element processing. |
system.io Package |
The system.io package contains types that allow reading and writing to files and data streams, and types that provide basic file and directory support. |
system.io.Compression Package |
The system.io.Compression package contains classes that provide basic compression and decompression services for streams. |
system.io.IsolatedStorage Package |
The package contains types that allow the creation and use of isolated stores. With these stores, you can read and write data that less trusted code cannot access and prevent the exposure of sensitive information that can be saved elsewhere on the file system. Data is stored in compartments that are isolated by the current user and by the assembly in which the code exists. Additionally, data can be isolated by domain. Roaming profiles can be used in conjunction with isolated storage so isolated stores will travel with the user's profile. The enumeration indicates different types of isolation. For more information about when to use isolated storage, see Isolated Storage. |
system.io.Log Package |
The system.io.Log package defines an interface for logging to a record-oriented sequential I/O system. |
system.io.MemoryMappedFiles Package |
The package provides classes for using a memory-mapped file, which maps the contents of a file to an application's logical address space. |
system.io.Packaging Package |
Provides classes that support storage of multiple data objects in a single container. |
system.io.Pipes Package |
The system.io.Pipes package contains types that provide a means for interprocess communication through anonymous and/or named pipes. |
system.io.Ports Package |
The package contains classes for controlling serial ports. The most important class, , provides a framework for synchronous and event-driven I/O, access to pin and break states, and access to serial driver properties. It can be used to wrap objects, allowing the serial port to be accessed by classes that use streams. |
system.identityModel Package |
The system.identityModel package contains classes that are used to build security token services (STS). These include the SecurityTokenService and Scope classes, as well as exception several utility classes that provide the ability to perform cookie transforms. |
system.identityModel.Claims Package |
The package contains classes that implement the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) claims-based identity authorization model. This model includes the class and the class.
Beginning with .NET Framework 4.5 and the integration of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) into the .NET Framework, the WCF claims-based identity model has been superseded by WIF. WIF provides a claims-based identity object model that can be used to provide authentication and authorization across several Microsoft product stacks, including the CLR, WCF, and ASP.NET. The WIF classes that represent claims, claim types, and identities and principals that are based on claims are contained in the package. Beginning with .NET 4.5, these classes should be used instead of those in the package. |
system.identityModel.Configuration Package |
The package contains classes that provide configuration for applications and services built using the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). The classes in this package represent settings under the <identityConfiguration> element. Classes that configure federation using the WS-Federation protocol are contained primarily in the package. These settings appear under the <system.identityModel.services> element in a configuration file. |
system.identityModel.Metadata Package |
The package contains classes that represent elements in a Federation Metadata document. A Federation Metadata document is an XML document that provides information that may be useful to partners when establishing a federation. For more information about federation metadata, see section three of the following specification: Web Services Federation Language (WS-Federation) Version 1.2. |
system.identityModel.Policy Package |
The package contains classes that are used to implement authorization policy when using the WCF claims-based identity model.
Beginning with .NET Framework 4.5 and the integration of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) into the .NET Framework, the WCF claims-based identity model has been superseded by WIF. WIF provides a claims-based identity object model that can be used to provide authentication and authorization across several Microsoft product stacks, including the CLR, WCF, and ASP.NET. In WIF, authorization policy is implemented by extending the class. Beginning with .NET 4.5, authorization policy should be implemented by using WIF instead of the classes in the package. |
system.identityModel.Protocols.WSTrust Package |
The system.identityModel.Protocols.WSTrust package contains classes that represent WS-Trust artifacts. These include the RequestSecurityToken (RST) and RequestSecurityToken (RSTR) classes and several serializers that can serialize and deserialize between WS-Trust artifacts on the wire and their representation in the object model.
Out-of-the-box, Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) contains support for the following WS-Trust specifications: WS-Trust February 2005, WS-Trust 1.3, or WS-Trust 1.4. |
system.identityModel.Selectors Package |
The package contains classes that implement authentication in the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) claims-based identity model.
Beginning with .NET Framework 4.5 and the integration of Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) into the .NET Framework, the WCF claims-based identity model has been superseded by WIF. WIF provides a claims-based identity object model that can be used to provide authentication and authorization across several Microsoft product stacks, including the CLR, WCF, and ASP.NET. The WIF classes that represent security tokens and that are used to process security tokens are contained in the package; for example, and . Beginning with .NET 4.5, the classes in the package should be used instead of those in the package. |
system.identityModel.Services Package |
The package primarily contains classes that are used in applications built using Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) that perform federated authentication with the WS-Federation protocol. It contains the HTTP Modules, (WSFAM) and (SAM), as well as classes that support their operation. The WSFAM provides handling for the WS-Federation sign-in and sign-out sequences and the SAM provides session management by maintaining and handling cookies. The package also contains classes that represent WS-Federation messages (), such as sign-in (, ) and sign-out messages (), as well as serializers that serialize and deserialize between the object model and the on-the-wire representations of these messages. |
system.identityModel.Services.Configuration Package |
The package contains classes that provide configuration for Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) applications that use the WS-Federation protocol. The classes in this package represent settings under the <system.identityModel.services> element. The package also contains some of the classes that are used to configure WS-Federation. Classes that configure other service and application settings, such as security token handlers, are contained primarily in the package. These settings appear under the <identityConfiguration> element in a configuration file. |
system.identityModel.Services.Tokens Package |
The contains the class and the class. |
system.identityModel.Tokens Package |
The package contains classes that represent security tokens, security token handlers, key identifier clauses and other artifacts used in token generation and processing. The package contains base classes such as , , and , as well as classes that derive from these classes and represent several of the token types, artifacts, and handlers for which the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) has built in support. This includes classes that contain support for SAML v1.1 and v2.0 tokens, such as: , , , and . |
system.linq Package |
The package provides classes and interfaces that support queries that use Language-Integrated Query (LINQ). |
system.linq.Expressions Package |
The system.linq.Expressions package contains classes, interfaces and enumerations that enable language-level code expressions to be represented as objects in the form of expression trees. |
system.management Package |
Provides access to a rich set of management information and management events about the system, devices, and applications instrumented to the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) infrastructure. Applications and services can query for interesting management information (such as how much free space is left on the disk, what is the current CPU utilization, which database a certain application is connected to, and much more), using classes derived from and , or subscribe to a variety of management events using the class. The accessible data can be from both managed and unmanaged components in the distributed environment. |
system.management.Instrumentation Package |
Provides the classes necessary for instrumenting applications for management and exposing their management information and events through WMI to potential consumers. Consumers such as Microsoft Application Center or Microsoft Operations Manager can then manage your application easily, and monitoring and configuring of your application is available for administrator scripts or other applications, both managed as well as unmanaged. Instrumentation of your application is easy to achieve using the InstrumentationClass custom attribute on classes you wish to expose, or using the provided BaseEvent and Instance base classes and the Instrumentation helper class. |
system.media Package |
The package contains classes for playing sound files and accessing sounds provided by the system. |
system.messaging Package |
The package provides classes that allow you to connect to, monitor, and administer message queues on the network and send, receive, or peek messages. |
system.messaging.Design Package |
The system.messaging.Design package contains classes that can be used to extend design-time support for system.messaging classes. |
system.net Package |
The package provides a simple programming interface for many of the protocols used on networks today. The and classes form the basis of what are called pluggable protocols, an implementation of network services that enables you to develop applications that use Internet resources without worrying about the specific details of the individual protocols.
Classes in the package can be used to develop Windows Store apps or desktop apps. When used in a Windows Store app, classes in the package are affected by network isolation feature, part of the application security model used by the Windows Developer Preview. The appropriate network capabilities must be enabled in the app manifest for a Windows Store app for the system to allow network access by a Windows Store app. For more information, see the Network Isolation for Windows Store Apps. |
system.net.Cache Package |
The system.net.Cache package defines the types and enumerations used to define cache policies for resources obtained using the WebRequest and HttpWebRequest classes. |
system.net.Configuration Package |
The system.net.Configuration package contains classes that applications use to programmatically access and update configuration settings for the system.net packages. |
system.net.Http Package |
The package provides a programming interface for modern HTTP applications. |
system.net.Http.Headers Package |
Provides support for collections of HTTP headers used by the system.net.Http package. |
system.net.Mail Package |
The package contains classes used to send electronic mail to a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server for delivery. |
system.net.Mime Package |
The package holds types that are used to represent Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange (MIME) headers. These types are used with the types in the package to specify Content-Type, Content-Disposition and Content-transfer-Encoding headers when using the class to send email. |
system.net.NetworkInformation Package |
The system.net.NetworkInformation package provides access to network traffic data, network address information, and notification of address changes for the local computer. The package also contains classes that implement the Ping utility. You can use Ping and related classes to check whether a computer is reachable across the network. |
system.net.PeerToPeer Package |
The package provides access to peer networking functionality. |
system.net.PeerToPeer.Collaboration Package |
The system.net.PeerToPeer.Collaboration package enhances system.net.PeerToPeer networking functionality and provides capabilities for serverless managed collaboration sessions. |
system.net.Security Package |
The package provides network streams for secure communications between hosts. |
system.net.Sockets Package |
The package provides a managed implementation of the Windows Sockets (Winsock) interface for developers who need to tightly control access to the network. |
system.net.WebSockets Package |
The package provides a managed implementation of the WebSocket interface for developers. |
system.printing Package |
Provides classes that enable you to automate the management of print servers, print queues, and print jobs. |
system.printing.IndexedProperties Package |
Provides classes that enable rapidly copying the property settings of a print system object to another object of the same type. Also, enables iteration through the properties of print system objects and the discovery of their types at run time, without using reflection. |
system.printing.Interop Package |
Provides interconversion of managed PrintTicket objects and unmanaged Graphics Device Interface (GDI) DEVMODE structures. |
system.reflection Package |
The package contains types that retrieve information about assemblies, modules, members, parameters, and other entities in managed code by examining their metadata. These types also can be used to manipulate instances of loaded types, for example to hook up events or to invoke methods. To dynamically create types, use the package. |
system.reflection.Context Package |
The package contains classes that enable customized reflection contexts. |
system.reflection.Emit Package |
The package contains classes that allow a compiler or tool to emit metadata and Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) and optionally generate a PE file on disk. The primary clients of these classes are script engines and compilers. |
system.resources Package |
The package provides classes and interfaces that allow developers to create, store, and manage various culture-specific resources used in an application. One of the most important classes of the package is the class. |
system.resources.Tools Package |
The package contains the class, which provides support for strongly-typed resources. Beginning with the .NET Framework version 2.0, this compile-time feature encapsulates access to resources by creating classes that contain a set of static read-only (get) properties, thus making it easier to consume resources. |
system.runtime Package |
The package contains advanced types that support diverse packages such as the System, Runtime, and the Security packages. |
system.runtime.Caching Package |
The package contains types that let you implement caching in NET Framework applications. |
system.runtime.Caching.Configuration Package |
The package contains configuration handler classes for the .NET Framework caching feature. |
system.runtime.Caching.Hosting Package |
The types in the system.runtime.Caching.Hosting package support .NET Framework hosting environments that use the caching features in ASP.NET. |
system.runtime.CompilerServices Package |
The package provides functionality for compiler writers who use managed code to specify attributes in metadata that affect the run-time behavior of the common language runtime. |
system.runtime.ConstrainedExecution Package |
The system.runtime.ConstrainedExecution package defines a set of types that enumerate and define a contract for reliability between the author of some code, and the developers who take a dependency on that code. The types in the system.runtime.ConstrainedExecution package are intended for use in constrained execution regions (CERs). |
system.runtime.DesignerServices Package |
The package provides classes that support application and component designers in integrated development environments. |
system.runtime.DurableInstancing Package |
This package contains classes that are used by the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) infrastructure to implement a persistence provider. |
system.runtime.ExceptionServices Package |
The package provides classes for advanced exception handling. |
system.runtime.Hosting Package |
The package contains advanced types that are used in application activation within application domains. |
system.runtime.InteropServices Package |
The system.runtime.InteropServices package provides a wide variety of members that support COM interop and platform invoke services. If you are unfamiliar with these services, see Interoperating with Unmanaged Code. |
system.runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes Package |
The system.runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes package contains managed types that correspond to types used by COM interop. |
system.runtime.InteropServices.CustomMarshalers Package |
Provides internal marshaling support for the .NET Framework. |
system.runtime.InteropServices.Expando Package |
The system.runtime.InteropServices.Expando package contains the IExpando interface which allows modification of an object by adding or removing its members. |
system.runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime Package |
The system.runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime package contains classes that support interoperation between managed code and the Windows Runtime, and that enable the creation of Windows Runtime types with managed code. |
system.runtime.Remoting Package |
The system.runtime.Remoting package provides classes and interfaces that allow developers to create and configure distributed applications. Some of the more important classes of the system.runtime.Remoting package are the RemotingConfiguration class, the RemotingServices class, and the ObjRef class. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Activation Package |
The package provides classes and objects that support server and client activation of remote objects. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Channels Package |
The package contains classes that support and handle channels and channel sinks, which are used as the transport medium when a client calls a method on a remote object. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http Package |
The package contains channels that use the HTTP protocol to transport messages and objects to and from remote locations. By default, the HTTP channels encode objects and method calls in SOAP format for transmission, but other encoding and decoding formatter sinks can be specified in the configuration properties of a channel. One of the most important classes of the package is the class. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc Package |
The package defines a communication channel for remoting that uses the interprocess communication (IPC) system of the Windows operating system. Because it does not use network communication, the IPC channel is much faster than the HTTP and TCP channels, but it can only be used for communication between application domains on the same physical computer. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp Package |
The package contains channels that use the TCP protocol to transport messages and objects to and from remote locations. By default, the TCP channels encode objects and method calls in binary format for transmission, but other encoding and decoding formatter sinks can be specified in the configuration properties of a channel. One of the most important classes of the package is the class. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Contexts Package |
The system.runtime.Remoting.Contexts package contains objects that define the contexts all objects reside within. A context is an ordered sequence of properties that defines an environment for the objects within it. Contexts are created during the activation process for objects that are configured to require certain automatic services such synchronization, transactions, just-in-time (JIT) activation, security, and so on. Multiple objects can live inside a context. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Lifetime Package |
The package contains classes that manage the lifetime of remote objects. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Messaging Package |
The system.runtime.Remoting.Messaging package contains classes used to create and transmit messages. The remoting infrastructure uses messages to communicate with remote objects. Messages are used to transmit remote method calls, to activate remote objects, and to communicate information. A message object carries a set of named properties, including action identifiers, envoy information, and parameters. Some of the most important classes of the system.runtime.Remoting.Messaging package are the AsyncResult class, the RemotingSurrogateSelector class, and the ReturnMessage class. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Metadata Package |
The package contains classes and attributes that can be used to customize generation and processing of SOAP for objects and fields. The classes of this package can be used to indicate the SOAPAction header field, type output, XML element name, and the method XML package URI. This information is used by the SOAP serializer during SOAP generation and the Soapsuds Tool (Soapsuds.exe) during Web Services Description Language (WSDL) generation. The information specified by the attributes in this package can be used on the receiving end of the generated SOAP to customize processing of the remoted method calls and objects. One of the most important classes of the package is class. The class is nonfunctional, and can only be used as the base class for all the metadata attributes. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Metadata.W3cXsd2001 Package |
The package contains the XML Schema Definition (XSD) that was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 2001. The XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes specification from W3C identifies format and behavior of various data types. This package contains wrapper classes for the data types that conform to the W3C specification. All date and time types conform to the ISO standards specification. |
system.runtime.Remoting.MetadataServices Package |
The package contains the classes that are used by the Soapsuds Tool (Soapsuds.exe) command-line tool and the user code to convert metadata to and from XML schema for the remoting infrastructure. Some of the most important classes of this package are the class and the class. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Proxies Package |
The system.runtime.Remoting.Proxies package contains classes that control and provide functionality for proxies. A proxy is a local object that is an image of a remote object. Proxies enable clients to access objects across remoting boundaries. |
system.runtime.Remoting.Services Package |
The package contains service classes that provide functionality to the .NET Framework. One of the most important classes of this package is the class. |
system.runtime.Serialization Package |
The system.runtime.Serialization package contains classes that can be used for serializing and deserializing objects. Serialization is the process of converting an object or a graph of objects into a linear sequence of bytes for either storage or transmission to another location. Deserialization is the process of taking in stored information and recreating objects from it. |
system.runtime.Serialization.Configuration Package |
The system.runtime.Serialization.Configuration package contains classes used to read the values found in application configuration under system.xml.serialization section.
The classes in this package are used by the serialization infrastructure to handle the configuration elements and cannot be used directly. Instead, to configure the DataContractSerializer, create an application configuration file and use the following XML elements. <system.xml.serialization><dataContractSerializer><declaredTypes><add> element for <declaredTypes><knownType> element. |
system.runtime.Serialization.Formatters Package |
The system.runtime.Serialization.Formatters package provides common enumerations, interfaces, and classes that are used by serialization formatters. |
system.runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary Package |
The package contains the class, which can be used to serialize and deserialize objects in binary format. |
system.runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap Package |
The system.runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap package contains the SoapFormatter class, which can be used to serialize and deserialize objects in the SOAP format. When building applications that uses the types in this package, you must reference the system.runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.dll assembly. |
system.runtime.Serialization.Json Package |
Provides classes related to Json serialization. |
system.runtime.Versioning Package |
The system.runtime.Versioning package contains advanced types that support versioning in side by side implementations of the .NET Framework. |
system.security Package |
The package provides the underlying structure of the common language runtime security system, including base classes for permissions. |
system.security.AccessControl Package |
The package provides programming elements that control access to and audit security-related actions on securable objects. |
system.security.Authentication Package |
The Authentication package provides a set of enumerations that describe the security of a connection. These enumerations include , , , and . |
system.security.Authentication.ExtendedProtection Package |
The package provides support for authentication using extended protection for applications. |
system.security.Authentication.ExtendedProtection.Configuration Package |
The package provides support for configuration of authentication using extended protection for applications. |
system.security.Claims Package |
Contains classes that implement claims-based identity in the .NET Framework, including classes that represent claims, claims-based identities, and claims-based principals. |
system.security.Cryptography Package |
The package provides cryptographic services, including secure encoding and decoding of data, as well as many other operations, such as hashing, random number generation, and message authentication. For more information, see Cryptographic Services. |
system.security.Cryptography.Pkcs Package |
The package provides programming elements for Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), including methods for signing data, exchanging keys, requesting certificates, public key encryption and decryption, and other security functions. |
system.security.Cryptography.X509Certificates Package |
The package contains the common language runtime implementation of the Authenticode X.509 v.3 certificate. This certificate is signed with a private key that uniquely and positively identifies the holder of the certificate. |
system.security.Cryptography.Xml Package |
The system.security.Cryptography.Xml package contains classes to support the creation and validation of XML digital signatures. The classes in this package implement the World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, XML-Signature Syntax and Processing. |
system.security.Permissions Package |
The system.security.Permissions package defines classes that control access to operations and resources based on policy. |
system.security.Policy Package |
The system.security.Policy package contains code groups, membership conditions, and evidence. These three types of classes are used to create the rules applied by the common language runtime security policy system. Evidence classes are the input to security policy and membership conditions are the switches; together these create policy statements and determine the granted permission set. Policy levels and code groups are the structure of the policy hierarchy. Code groups are the encapsulation of a rule and are arranged hierarchically in a policy level. |
system.security.Principal Package |
The system.security.Principal package defines a principal object that represents the security context under which code is running. For more information, see Role-Based Security. |
system.security.RightsManagement Package |
Provides types to support rights management of application-created content such as that stored in a or . |
system.serviceModel Package |
Provides classes related to the service model. |
system.serviceModel.Activation Package |
Provides classes related to service model activation. |
system.serviceModel.Activation.Configuration Package |
Represents the configuration settings for the SMSvcHost.exe tool.
This package represents the configuration elements that can be configured in the SMSvcHost.exe.config file. Specifically, it includes all machine-wide settings that need to be configured. |
system.serviceModel.Activities Package |
The system.serviceModel.Activities package contains classes that allow you to send messages to and receive messages from workflows. These activities are used when writing workflow services and allow you to define how messages are sent and received in a workflow. |
system.serviceModel.Activities.Activation Package |
The system.serviceModel.Activities.Activation package contains the that provides instances of in managed hosting environments where the host instance is created dynamically in response to incoming messages. |
system.serviceModel.Activities.Configuration Package |
The system.serviceModel.Activities.Configuration package contains classes used to configure workflow services. These classes allow you to apply service and endpoint behaviors and configure tracking. |
system.serviceModel.Activities.Description Package |
The system.serviceModel.Activities.Description package contains classes that enable you to control various behaviors related to workflow services. |
system.serviceModel.Activities.Presentation Package |
Provides classes related to service model presentation activities. |
system.serviceModel.Activities.Presentation.Factories Package |
Contains factories that create Receive/SendReply and Send/ReceiveReply activity pairs. |
system.serviceModel.Activities.Tracking Package |
The system.serviceModel.Activities.Tracking package contains classes used to create tracking records for a workflow service instance. Tracking records are created by created by the workflow runtime during the execution of a workflow instance, and are sent to registered tracking participants. |
system.serviceModel.Activities.Tracking.Configuration Package |
The system.serviceModel.Activities.Tracking.Configuration package contains classes used to configure tracking for service hosted workflows. These classes allow you to specify the tracking information you want your workflow service to generate. |
system.serviceModel.Channels Package |
Provides classes related to service model channels. |
system.serviceModel.ComIntegration Package |
Defines classes needed for integration with COM applications. |
system.serviceModel.Configuration Package |
Provides classes related to service model configuration. |
system.serviceModel.Description Package |
Provides classes related to the service model description. |
system.serviceModel.Diagnostics Package |
The system.serviceModel.Diagnostics package contains an enumeration that is used to configure performance counters for diagnostics purposes. |
system.serviceModel.Discovery Package |
The system.serviceModel.Discovery package contains the classes required for the creation and use of discoverable services. These classes implement the WS-Discovery protocol for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). |
system.serviceModel.Discovery.Configuration Package |
The system.serviceModel.Discovery.Configuration package contains classes that allow you to configure discovery settings in a configuration file. |
system.serviceModel.Discovery.Version11 Package |
The system.serviceModel.Discovery.Version11 package contains the classes required for the creation and use of discoverable services. These classes implement the WS-Discovery version 1.1 protocol for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). |
system.serviceModel.Discovery.VersionApril2005 Package |
The system.serviceModel.Discovery.VersionApril2005 package contains the classes required for the creation and use of discoverable services. These classes implement the April 2005 version of the WS-Discovery protocol for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). |
system.serviceModel.Discovery.VersionCD1 Package |
The system.serviceModel.Discovery.VersionCD1 package contains the classes required for the creation and use of discoverable services. These classes implement the Committee Draft 1 version of the WS-Discovery protocol for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). |
system.serviceModel.Dispatcher Package |
Provides classes related to dispatching the service model. |
system.serviceModel.MsmqIntegration Package |
The system.serviceModel.MsmqIntegration package contains classes that relate to Microsoft Message Queuing Service (MSMQ) integration, which allows communication between MSMQ applications and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications. |
system.serviceModel.PeerResolvers Package |
The package contains classes that allow developers to customize and extend the Peer Name Resolution Protocol service. |
system.serviceModel.Persistence Package |
The system.serviceModel.Persistence package contains classes that allow workflow services (WCF services implemented as workflows) to be persisted into the persistence store. |
system.serviceModel.Routing Package |
This package contains classes that are used to configure and manage the WCF . |
system.serviceModel.Routing.Configuration Package |
This package contains configuration classes that are used by the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) infrastructure to convert XML into Common Language Runtime (CLR) types. You can also manipulate these classes directly for extensibility purposes. |
system.serviceModel.Security Package |
The system.serviceModel.Security package deals with general security-related topics, for example, SecurityAlgorithmSuite. |
system.serviceModel.Security.Tokens Package |
Deals with security tokens and certificates. |
system.serviceModel.Syndication Package |
Provides classes related to service model syndication. |
system.serviceModel.Web Package |
Provides classes related to using the service model on the web. |
system.serviceModel.XamlIntegration Package |
Provides utility classes to enable the serialization of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) entities to XAML. |
system.serviceProcess Package |
The package provides classes that allow you to implement, install, and control Windows service applications. Services are long-running executables that run without a user interface. Implementing a service involves inheriting from the class and defining specific behavior to process when start, stop, pause, and continue commands are passed in, as well as custom behavior and actions to take when the system shuts down. |
system.serviceProcess.Design Package |
The system.serviceProcess.Design package contains classes that can be used to extend design-time support for Windows services applications. |
system.speech.AudioFormat Package |
The package consists of a single class, , which contains information about the format of the audio that is being input to the speech recognition engine, or being output from the speech synthesis engine. |
system.speech.Recognition Package |
The system.speech.Recognition package contains Windows Desktop Speech technology types for implementing speech recognition. |
system.speech.Recognition.SrgsGrammar Package |
With the members of the package, you can programmatically create grammars that comply with the W3C Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0 (SRGS). |
system.speech.Synthesis Package |
The N:system.speech.Synthesis package contains classes for initializing and configuring a speech synthesis engine, for creating prompts, for generating speech, for responding to events, and for modifying voice characteristics. |
system.speech.Synthesis.TtsEngine Package |
Supports the creation of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) based custom engines for rendering text to speech (TTS). |
system.text Package |
The system.text package contains classes that represent ASCII and Unicode character encodings; abstract base classes for converting blocks of characters to and from blocks of bytes; and a helper class that manipulates and formats String objects without creating intermediate instances of String. |
system.text.RegularExpressions Package |
The package contains classes that provide access to the .NET Framework regular expression engine. The package provides regular expression functionality that may be used from any platform or language that runs within the Microsoft .NET Framework. In addition to the types contained in this package, the class enables you to determine whether a particular string conforms to a regular expression pattern. |
system.threading Package |
The system.threading package provides classes and interfaces that enable multithreaded programming. In addition to classes for synchronizing thread activities and access to data (Mutex, Monitor, Interlocked, AutoResetEvent, and so on), this package includes a ThreadPool class that allows you to use a pool of system-supplied threads, and a Timer class that executes callback methods on thread pool threads. |
system.threading.Tasks Package |
The system.threading.Tasks package provides types that simplify the work of writing concurrent and asynchronous code. The main types are Task which represents an asynchronous operation that can be waited on and cancelled, and Task<TResult>, which is a task that can return a value. The TaskFactory class provides static methods for creating and starting tasks, and the TaskScheduler class provides the default thread scheduling infrastructure. |
system.timers Package |
The system.timers package provides the Timer component, which allows you to raise an event on a specified interval. |
system.transactions Package |
The package contains classes that allow you to write your own transactional application and resource manager. Specifically, you can create and participate in a transaction (local or distributed) with one or multiple participants. |
system.transactions.Configuration Package |
The system.transactions.Configuration package contains classes that describe configuration options used by system.transactions classes. |
system.web Package |
The package supplies classes and interfaces that enable browser-server communication. This package includes the class, which provides extensive information about the current HTTP request; the class, which manages HTTP output to the client; and the class, which provides access to server-side utilities and processes. also includes classes for cookie manipulation, file transfer, exception information, and output cache control. |
system.web.Caching Package |
The system.web.Caching package provides classes for caching frequently used data on the server. |
system.web.Compilation Package |
The system.web.Compilation package contains classes for generating and compiling custom file types within the ASP.NET build environment. |
system.web.Configuration Package |
The system.web.Configuration package contains classes that are used to set up ASP.NET configuration. |
system.web.Configuration.Internal Package |
The system.web.Configuration.Internal package contains configuration types intended for internal use only. |
system.web.Globalization Package |
The system.web.Globalization package provides classes and interfaces for localization providers. |
system.web.Handlers Package |
The package contains HTTP handler classes that process HTTP requests to a Web server. |
system.web.Hosting Package |
The system.web.Hosting package provides the functionality for hosting ASP.NET applications from managed applications outside Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). |
system.web.Instrumentation Package |
The package contains types that provide information about current page execution, that include execution listeners and instrumentation, and that include methods that are called before and after view engine renders output. |
system.web.Mail Package |
The classes in this package have been deprecated. Use the system.net.Mail package instead. The system.web.Mail package contains classes that enable you to construct and send messages using the CDOSYS (Collaboration Data Objects for Windows 2000) message component. The mail message is delivered either through the SMTP mail service built into Microsoft Windows 2000 or through an arbitrary SMTP server. The classes in this package can be used from ASP.NET or from any managed application. |
system.web.Management Package |
The package contains classes and interfaces for managing and monitoring the health of Web applications. |
system.web.ModelBinding Package |
The system.web.ModelBinding package provides classes that enable you to bind data objects to ASP.NET Web Forms server controls. |
system.web.Profile Package |
The system.web.Profile package contains classes that are used to work with ASP.NET user profiles in Web server applications. |
system.web.RegularExpressions Package |
The package provides precompiled regular expressions that can be used to parse ASP.NET files. All members of the package are descendants of the class. |
system.web.Routing Package |
The package provides classes that are used with URL routing, which enables you to use URLs that do not map to a physical file. |
system.web.Security Package |
The package contains classes that are used to implement ASP.NET security in Web server applications. |
system.web.Security.AntiXss Package |
Contains methods that you can use to encode strings in order help you protect your application against cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and LDAP injection attacks. |
system.web.Services Package |
The system.web.Services package consists of the classes that enable you to create XML Web services using ASP.NET and XML Web service clients. XML Web services are applications that provide the ability to exchange messages in a loosely coupled environment using standard protocols such as HTTP, XML, XSD, SOAP, and WSDL. XML Web services enable the building of modular applications within and across companies in heterogeneous environments making them interoperable with a broad variety of implementations, platforms and devices. The SOAP-based XML messages of these applications can have well-defined (structured and typed), or loosely defined parts (using arbitrary XML). The ability of the messages to evolve over time without breaking the protocol is fundamental to the flexibility and robustness of XML Web services as a building block for the future of the Web. |
system.web.Services.Configuration Package |
The package consists of the classes that configure how XML Web services created using ASP.NET run. |
system.web.Services.Description Package |
The system.web.Services.Description package consists of the classes that enable you to publicly describe an XML Web service by using the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Each class in this package corresponds to a specific element in the WSDL specification, and the class hierarchy corresponds to the XML structure of a valid WSDL document. For more information about WSDL, see the WSDL specification. |
system.web.Services.Discovery Package |
The system.web.Services.Discovery package consists of the classes that allows XML Web service clients to locate the available XML Web services on a Web server through a process called XML Web services Discovery. |
system.web.Services.Protocols Package |
The system.web.Services.Protocols package consists of the classes that define the protocols used to transmit data across the wire during the communication between XML Web service clients and XML Web services created using ASP.NET. |
system.web.SessionState Package |
The package supplies classes and interfaces that enable storage of data specific to a single client within a Web application on the server. The session-state data is used to give the client the appearance of a persistent connection with the application. State information can be stored within local process memory or, for Web farm configurations, it can be stored out of process using either the ASP.NET State service or a Microsoft SQL Server database. |
system.web.UI Package |
The package provides classes and interfaces that enable you to create ASP.NET server controls and ASP.NET Web pages for the user interface of your ASP.NET Web applications. |
system.web.UI.Adapters Package |
The package contains the base classes for control adapters and page adapters. You can use these adapters to override the life-cycle states of pages and controls. This is useful if you want to modify a control's markup or behavior for new markup standards or for specific browsers. |
system.web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting Package |
The system.web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting package contains methods and properties for the Chart Web server control. |
system.web.UI.Design Package |
The package contains classes that can be used to extend design-time support for ASP.NET Web pages and for Web server controls. |
system.web.UI.Design.Directives Package |
The system.web.UI.Design.Directives package contains classes that can be used to extend design-time support for ASP.NET Web page directives. |
system.web.UI.Design.MobileControls Package |
The package contains classes that provide design-time support for the classes in the package. For information about how to develop ASP.NET mobile applications, see the www.asp.net/mobile Web site. |
system.web.UI.Design.MobileControls.Converters Package |
The system.web.UI.Design.MobileControls.Converters package contains classes that provide design-time support for data type converters in mobile controls. For information about how to develop ASP.NET mobile applications, see the www.asp.net/mobile Web site. |
system.web.UI.Design.WebControls Package |
The package contains classes that can be used to extend design-time support for Web server controls. |
system.web.UI.Design.WebControls.WebParts Package |
The system.web.UI.Design.WebControls.WebParts package contains classes that provide design-time support for controls derived from classes in the system.web.UI.WebControls.WebParts package. |
system.web.UI.HtmlControls Package |
The package contains classes that allow you to create HTML server controls on a Web Forms page. HTML server controls run on the server and map directly to standard HTML tags supported by most browsers. This allows you to programmatically control the HTML elements on a Web Forms page. |
system.web.UI.MobileControls Package |
The system.web.UI.MobileControls package contains a set of ASP.NET server controls that can render your application for different mobile devices. The APIs in this package are obsolete. For information about how to develop ASP.NET mobile applications, see the www.asp.net/mobile Web site. |
system.web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters Package |
The package contains classes you can use to override the life-cycle stages of a mobile control to modify its default HTML, CHTML, or WML markup or behavior for new markup standards or for specific browsers and mobile devices. The APIs in this package are obsolete. For information about how to develop ASP.NET mobile applications, see the www.asp.net/mobile Web site. |
system.web.UI.MobileControls.Adapters.XhtmlAdapters Package |
The package contains classes you can use to override the life-cycle stages of a mobile control to modify its default XHTML markup or behavior for new markup standards or for specific browsers and mobile devices. For information about how to develop ASP.NET mobile applications, see the www.asp.net/mobile Web site. |
system.web.UI.WebControls Package |
The system.web.UI.WebControls package contains classes that allow you to create Web server controls on a Web page. Web server controls run on the server and include form controls such as buttons and text boxes. They also include special-purpose controls such as a calendar. Because Web server controls run on the server, you can programmatically control these elements. Although Web server controls are rendered as HTML, their object model does not necessarily reflect HTML syntax. |
system.web.UI.WebControls.Adapters Package |
The system.web.UI.WebControls.Adapters package contains classes that you can use to override the life-cycle stages of a Web control. The classes enable you to modify a control's markup or behavior for new markup standards or for specific browsers. |
system.web.UI.WebControls.Expressions Package |
The package provides classes that enable you to filter data in a Web page by using the control. |
system.web.UI.WebControls.WebParts Package |
The system.web.UI.WebControls.WebParts package contains classes and interfaces known collectively as the Web Parts control set. You can use these classes to create Web pages whose appearance and behavior can be modified (personalized) by end users. Each user's personalized settings for a page are saved for future browser sessions. |
system.web.Util Package |
The package is a collection of classes that enable callback methods to be run under the scope of a transaction and that enable work to be posted to separate threads. |
system.web.WebSockets Package |
The system.web.WebSockets package contains classes that support adding WebSocket functionality to ASP.NET Web Forms applications. |
system.windows Package |
Provides several important Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) base element classes, various classes that support the WPF property system and event logic, and other types that are more broadly consumed by the WPF core and framework. |
system.windows.Annotations Package |
Provides classes to support user-created annotations on content displayed in WPF document viewing controls. |
system.windows.Forms Package |
The system.windows.Forms package contains classes for creating Windows-based applications that take full advantage of the rich user interface features available in the Microsoft Windows operating system. |
system.windows.Forms.Automation Package |
Provides support for Windows Forms UI Automation clients. |
system.windows.Forms.ComponentModel.Com2Interop Package |
The system.windows.Forms.ComponentModel.Com2Interop package contains helper classes that Visual Studio uses to display property pages while in design mode. |
system.windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting Package |
The system.windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting package contains methods and properties for the Chart Windows forms control. |
system.windows.Forms.Design Package |
The package contains classes that support design-time configuration and behavior for Windows Forms components. These classes consist of designer classes that provide support for Windows Forms components, a set of design-time services; UITypeEditor classes for configuring certain types of properties, and classes for importing ActiveX controls. |
system.windows.Forms.Design.Behavior Package |
The package contains classes for creating custom user interface behavior for components at design time. |
system.windows.Forms.Integration Package |
Contains classes that support interoperation of Windows Forms and WPF controls. |
system.windows.Forms.Layout Package |
The system.windows.Forms.Layout package contains classes for implementing layout behaviors in your form or control. |
system.windows.Forms.PropertyGridInternal Package |
The PropertyGridInternal package provides internal support for the PropertyGrid control. The classes in this package support the .NET Framework infrastructure and are not intended to be used directly from your code. |
system.windows.Forms.VisualStyles Package |
The package contains classes for rendering controls and other Windows user interface (UI) elements with visual styles in operating systems that support them. |
system.windows.Input Package |
Provides types to support the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) input system. This includes device abstraction classes for mouse, keyboard, and stylus devices, a common input manager class, support for commanding and custom commands, and various utility classes. |
system.windows.Input.Manipulations Package |
Provides functionality for monitoring and responding to a collection of manipulators as a single composite, enabling an application to track the changes to the composite instead of the individual components. |
system.windows.Input.StylusPlugIns Package |
Provides classes that support manipulating data from a tablet pen on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) platform. These classes offer low-level control over input and the creation of digital ink objects. The class provides a mechanism for you to implement custom behavior and apply that behavior to the stream of data coming from the stylus device for the optimal performance. |
system.windows.Input.StylusWisp Package |
Provides classes that support manipulating data from a WISP tablet device pen on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) platform. |
system.windows.Markup Package |
Provides types to support XAML. Some of these types are located in WPF assemblies and are specific to WPF scenarios that involve XAML. Other types in this package provide support for .NET Framework XAML Services in general, and do not require referencing WPF assemblies. |
system.windows.Markup.Localizer Package |
Provides types that assist in the localization of binary XAML (BAML) sources. |
system.windows.Markup.Primitives Package |
Contains classes that support Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). |
system.windows.Xps Package |
Provides classes that write XPS documents to a data store or print queue. |
system.windows.Xps.Packaging Package |
Provides types that allow applications to read and write the components of an XPS document. |
system.windows.Xps.Serialization Package |
Provides types that support serialization of XPS documents. |
system.xml Package |
The package provides standards-based support for processing XML. |
system.xml.Linq Package |
Contains the classes for LINQ to XML. LINQ to XML is an in-memory XML programming interface that enables you to modify XML documents efficiently and easily. |
system.xml.Resolvers Package |
The package provides support for prepopulating the cache with DTDs or XML streams. |
system.xml.Schema Package |
The package contains the XML classes that provide standards-based support for XML schema definition language (XSD) schemas. |
system.xml.Serialization Package |
The system.xml.Serialization package contains classes that are used to serialize objects into XML format documents or streams. |
system.xml.Serialization.Advanced Package |
The system.xml.Serialization.Advanced package contains classes that allow you to customize the code generated from a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document. |
system.xml.Serialization.Configuration Package |
The system.xml.Serialization.Configuration package contains classes used to read the values found in application configuration files under the <system.xml.serialization> Element section. |
system.xml.XPath Package |
The package contains the classes that define a cursor model for navigating and editing XML information items as instances of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model. |
system.xml.XmlConfiguration Package |
The system.xml.XmlConfiguration package that contains sections of XML configuration. |
system.xml.Xsl Package |
The system.xml.Xsl package provides support for Extensible Stylesheet Transformation (XSLT) transforms. It supports the W3C XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 Recommendation. |
system.xml.Xsl.Runtime Package |
Contains types that are used by the XSL transformation engine. |