| English | German |
| app Context Menu | App-Kontextmenü (The system user interface provided for cut, copy, and paste) |
| call context | Anrufkontext (Information about the options that a caller selects that is collected and provided to the agent who receives the call) |
| client context | Clientkontext (The object that is used to initiate any actions with the client-side object model. It is the primary entry point for the client object model, and the primary object for coordinating requests against corresponding objects in a site collection) |
| context control block | Kontextkontrollblock (An internal file system structure in which a file system maintains the per-file object state for an open instance of a file) |
| context field | Kontextfeld (One of four fields of an SCODE. This field is reserved in the SCODE on 16-bit platforms and does not exist in the version for 32-bit platforms) |
| context ID | Kontext-ID (A unique number or string that corresponds to a specific object in an application. Context IDs are used to create links between the application and corresponding Help topics) |
| context menu | Kontextmenü (A menu that is related to the active window or item, accessible by right-clicking the mouse) |
| Context pane | Kontextbereich (A tree view included in the Table Designer that lists objects related to a table) |
| context property | Kontexteigenschaft (The implicit state, and code to manage that state, held on behalf of an object instance. For example, the transaction context property holds the transaction identifier of the transaction that the object is participating in) |
| context-sensitive Help | kontextbezogene Hilfe (A form of assistance in which a program that provides on-screen help shows information to the user concerning the current command or operation being attempted) |
| context-sensitive menu | kontextbezogenes Menü (A menu that highlights options as available or unavailable depending on the context in which the option is called. The menus on Windows' menu bar, for example, are context sensitive; options such as copy are grayed out if nothing is selected) |
| context switch | Kontextwechsel (The changing of the identity against which permissions to execute statements or perform actions are checked) |
| data context | Datenkontext (A convenient way to share data between multiple controls by establishing a scope within which all data-bound properties inherit a common source of data) |
| device context | Gerätekontext (A data structure that defines the graphic objects, their associated attributes, and the graphic modes that affect output on a device) |
| domain context | Domänenkontext (A client-side representation of a domain service) |
| execution context | Ausführungskontext (In the Concurrency Runtime, an abstraction of an operating system thread) |
| explicit data context | expliziter Datenkontext (A binding to a data source within the data context that is specified for the current object or one of its parents) |
| external context | externer Kontext (In the Concurrency Runtime, a context that is created by an application component that is external to the Task Scheduler. An external context generates parallel work for a Task Scheduler and participates in that work) |
| internal context | interner Kontext (In the Concurrency Runtime, a context that the Task Scheduler creates and uses to run tasks) |
| local context | lokaler Kontext (A security context in Windows that controls capabilities. Windows Store apps written in HTML/JavaScript can contain content stored in a local or web context. Script files acquired from the Windows Store (and originally packaged with the application) can access WinRT APIs but content dynamically downloaded from the web runs with restricted capabilities, much like those afforded to browser-based script today) |
| naming context | Namenskontext (A specific subtree of a directory information tree that is identified by its distinguished name (also known as DN). In Sun ONE Directory Server 4.0 and 5.1, specific types of directory information are stored in naming contexts) |
| object context | Objektkontext (The entity container defined in the conceptual schema. It contains a connection to the underlying data store and provides services such as change tracking) |
| security context | Sicherheitskontext (The security attributes or rules that are currently in effect. For example, the rules that govern what a user can do to a protected object are determined by security information in the user's access token and in the object's security descriptor. Together, the access token and the security descriptor form a security context for the user's actions on the object) |
| state context | Zustandskontext (A nested series of states, which represents the current state of a system) |
| system context | Systemkontext (The state of Windows after it first starts when some system services are loaded but no user is logged in and per-user settings are not available) |
| web context | Webkontext (A security context in Windows that controls capabilities. Windows Store apps written in HTML/JavaScript can contain content stored in a local or web context. Script files acquired from the Windows Store (and originally packaged with the application) can access WinRT APIs, but content dynamically downloaded from the web runs with restricted capabilities, much like those afforded to browser-based script today) |
