Glossary

Async / Await

C# and Visual Basic language feature to support asynchronous programming. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh191443.aspx .

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Argument

The expression or expression used as the input of method or constructor call. See Parameters vs argumentshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_(computer_programming)#Parameters_and_arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_(computer_programming)#Parameters_and_arguments

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Content property

A the Xaml property that is assigned with the content of a xml element.

This is a XAML concept see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh700351.aspx#XAML_CONTENT_PROPERTIES for more information.

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Expression

Syntactic element that evaluate to a single value. See the Expression section on the C# programming Guide (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173144.aspx)

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Helper

A class or method that implements a functionality that is missing on the target platform. See the AddHelper Code Action .

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Mapping action

Actions to be performed on a specific method call, property reference, property assignment, constructor invocation or type usage.

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Parameter

The definition of the input of method or constructor call. See Parameters vs argumentshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_(computer_programming)#Parameters_and_arguments.

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Statement

Syntactic element that represents an action. See Statements section of the C# Programming Guide (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173143.aspx)