application domain

noun

An isolated context, with its own virtual address space, in which an application runs, analogous to a process in an operating system.

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Meanings

nounapplication domain (plural application domains)

plural application domains

  1. .NETcomputingAn isolated context, with its own virtual address space, in which an application runs, analogous to a process in an operating system.

    .NET Remoting can be used for accessing objects in another application domain.

    2004, Simon Robinson, Christian Nagel, Karli Watson, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner, Bill Evjen, Professional C#
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    Next we create a new thread, and that thread creates a new application domain, loads, and executes an assembly.

    2002, Michael Stiefel, Robert J Oberg, Application development using C# and .NET

    All managed code in the .NET Framework needs to run within an application domain.

    2006, Stefan Schackow, Professional ASP.NET 2.0 security, membership, and role management
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