Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alan J Gasperini

Brian Keith Pepin

Charles P Jazdzewski

Mark A Boulter

Gary Linscott

Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan

James Nakashima

Jeffrey Walter Kelly

Juraj Hlavac

The present invention provides technologies for forming an editing interface for editing arbitrary objects. In particular, the present invention provides system and methods for enumerating object properties, selecting a suitable pre-existing object editor and, if no such pre-existing editor is available, constructing an object editor on the fly suitable for editing the properties of the object where the object may include properties and/or collections of objects. Construction of a suitable editor is based on enumeration of object properties and on the serialization of the object using a descriptive language such as extensible markup language ('XML') or the like. Property values specified by a user via the object interface and editors are stored in a descriptive format such as XML and generally specify the initial characteristics of the object.

Arbitrary object editing

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Alan J Gasperini