sorry for a stupid question

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Hi,
I am new to this all programming stuff.
can any body tell me what a visual source safe is ? like is it a web service or webtool or a language ? and how about winforms ? and what are webservices ?
Thanks

 

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Visual Source Safe
Application allowing multiple developers to work on the same application during development. Various forms, classes etc are 'checked out' to a user and locked so that others cannot work on them. It does some other stuff too but thats the main part.

WinForms
Just windows forms, applications built to run under the windows environment, in a language such as VB.net.

WebServices
Created to allow remote machines to get information from a server in XML format, these are not specific to .NET, so a .NET app can get information from a web service running under Java. Can also be used to send information back to the server, for updating. Allows secure selection and updating without access to the database in a unified (XML) format.

Just an overview, but theres plenty of stuff on all of these things on the internet