Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andy Chung-An Chang

David Andrew Morton

Preethi Ramani

Savraj Singh Dhanjal

Alex Mogilevsky

Andrew V Fomichev

Dien Trang Luu

Eric Michael Faller

Sylvia Antje Hayashi

Angela Wai Ga So

Andrew Fomichev

Methods, systems, and computer products are provided for exposing the programming of an application user interface to allow modification of the associated user interface to include adding, removing, disabling, enabling and repurposing new or existing user interface components.

Markup based extensibility for user interfaces

When a user interface of a parent software application is modified such that user interface components of an add-in application are not compatible with the parent application user interface, user interface components associated with functionalities of the add-in application are added to the modified parent application user interface. A prior user interface of the parent application to which the add-in application user interface components are added is run in a background of the parent application and is not visible to users. User interface components in the parent application user interface are linked to corresponding add-in application user interface components in the prior user interface. Selection of a user interface component from the present user interface that is associated with an add-in application functionality causes selection of a corresponding user interface component in the background user interface, and the associated add-in functionality is executed.

Cross version and cross product user interface

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Andy Chung-An Chang