Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrei Zenkovitch

Travis Austin Wright

Andrew Forget

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Maya Rodrig

David James Armour

Humberto Lezama Guadarrama

Yue Ma

Brian Daniel Meersma

Olof L E Mases

Kyle Patrick Curlett

Ankur Lal

Arnavi Mahendra Chheda

Barnabas Whitfield

Sathish Kumar Venkat Rangam

Leeviana Peng Gray

John David Welch

Yan Zhong Leigh

William Dean Saulnier

Cosmin Catrinescu

Ravi Kiran Chintalapudi

Betsy Yu-pui McIntyre

Richard O Rundle

Zohaib Rauf

Jiuqing Song

System and methods are directed to displaying interactive content with static content in a user interface of an application. More specifically, it may be determined that an interactive component is to be rendered in a user interface of a first application, where the user interface includes static content. In response to determining that the interactive component is it be rendered, at least one linking parameter may be determined for linking the interactive component with interactive content stored in a shared storage. Based on the at least one linking parameter, the interactive component may be rendered in the user interface of the first application in-line with the static content of the user interface of the first application. Changes to the interactive content made by a second user of a second application may then be updated within the interactive component rendered in the user interface of the first application.

Interactive components for user collaboration

Techniques are described herein for customizing a form (a.k.a. a dialog) in a model-based system. For instance, the form may be customized without the need to modify the form in persistent memory, such as read-only memory (ROM), a hard disk, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc. A representation of a customization (e.g., an extensible markup language file, a management pack, etc.) regarding the form is captured in memory, such as a random access memory (RAM), and stored in a file or a database. For instance, the representation of the customization may be stored separately from the form. The representation of the customization is retrieved from the file or the database and applied to a rendering of the form.

Customizing a form in a model-based system

Embodiments are directed to providing a structural diagram to collect user input data in a non-linear manner and to managing multiple distributed application models using a structural diagram. In one scenario, a computer system receives a user input specifying a distributed software application that is to be managed across various different computer systems. The computer system determines, based the specified distributed application, which nodes are to be displayed in a structural diagram, where the nodes of the structural diagram represent application properties for managing the specified distributed software application. The computer system then provides a structural diagram that displays the determined nodes. The nodes allow non-linear configuration of the specified application across the various computer systems.

Managing distributed applications using structural diagrams

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