Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alok Jain

Srivatsan Kidambi

Anand Rengasamy

Prashant Kumar

Vivek Bapuji Dalvi

Aditya Makarand Desai

Shefy Manayil Kareem

Bryan Dickens

Abhishek Tiwari

Himanshu Agrawal

Pankaj Kachrulal Sarda

Raunak Pandya

Rama Krishna Amaravadi

Mini Nair

Anurag Dalmia

Vivek Dalvi

Ganesh Krishnamurthi

Ark Vamsee

Fnu Suresh Kumar Koorella

Techniques are described herein that are capable of modeling a lifetime of a hybrid software application using an application manifest. For instance, workflows and input-output information may be received (e.g., from an independent software vendor). The workflows are configured to implement respective heterogeneous software products that are included in a hybrid software application. The input-output information specifies inputs of the heterogeneous software products and a mapping between output(s) of first heterogeneous software product(s) and input(s) of second heterogeneous software product(s). Operations that are to be performed to execute the workflows are determined based at least in part on the inputs and the mapping. A lifetime of the hybrid software application is modeled by generating an application manifest that defines the lifetime based at least in part on the operations.

Modeling lifetime of hybrid software application using application manifest

Optimized execution order results (e.g., from a Rete algorithm graph) are correlated with a production ordering selected by a user, thereby more accurately modeling the user's understanding of how productions relate to one another during execution in a rule system. An execution report shows in the user-selected order for each of the rules, whether the rule was executed, the inputs matched to partial conditions of the rule, and partial condition evaluation results. User rule management experience is also enhanced in other ways. For example, a graphical user interface permits user selection of a schema xpath, bulk selection of XML schema nodes to define vocabulary used in rules, if-then-else rules, rules with embedded SQL, marking rules as active or not, receiving multiple kinds of input from a single text input box, locally executing rules, importing rules authored elsewhere, iterating over a collection of objects, and validating rules against vocabulary data types.

Optimized execution order correlation with production listing order

Determining the efficiency of a website. A method includes identifying a plurality of webpages for the website. The method further includes identifying how often each of the pages is accessed when the website is accessed as compared to other webpages in the plurality of webpages. The method further includes creating a weight, for each page, based on a measure of how often each of the pages is accessed when the website is accessed as compared to other webpages. The method further includes determining how efficiently each of the webpages loads. For the website, the method further includes determining an overall efficiency by combining the efficiencies of the individual webpages in the plurality of webpages, where each webpage's efficiency is combined into the overall efficiency according to the weight of the webpage.

Weighted experience website performance score

A development environment provides warnings based on one or more application categories set for an application. Each warning has a trigger threshold and a warning action. Different application categories have different warnings. The development environment proactively tests for trigger conditions and provides triggered warnings within a workflow that includes application designing, code editing, building, and running. For instance, a Social Networking application whose start-up time is greater than desired for Social Networking applications will trigger a warning. Password Manager or Finance applications that should use a more secure approach to store user data will trigger a warning not given to applications in other categories. A News application may trigger a warning from the development environment that application content is not easily readable if a user switches to a light color theme on a device. The application category is selected by the developer or set proactively by the development environment.

Application quality parameter measurement-based development

A network address of a computing device is obtained, and an unencrypted request is sent to a resource access manager of a particular network. If both a response is received from the resource access manager and the computing device has a network address within a desired range of network addresses, then a determination is made that the computing device is inside the particular network. Otherwise, a determination is made that the computing device is outside the particular network.

Determining whether a device is inside a network

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