Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Clinton Dee Covington

Christopher Warren Bryant

Pavel R Karimov

Michael J McCormack

Samuel C Radakovitz

Hiroshi Tsukahara

Zachary P Woodall

Andrew Robert Miller

Stephen I Lesser

Krista Bendig

Timothy E Getsch

Scott Timothy Gardner

Vitore Selca

Kelly Michael Krout

Robert Scott Cooper

Dan Jacob Hough

Melissa Susan Kerr

Nathaniel Eric Breskin Auer

Robert Coggins

Jay L Massena

Theresa Naramore

Kumar Srinivasamurthy

Daniel Hough

Steven Miles Greenberg

Owen Charles Braun

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Konrad Tupaj

Brian Eugene Kihneman

Greg S Lindhorst

Shane L Groff

Adam Russell Kenney

Nishant Kumar

Vijay Mital

Christopher D Edwards

Keri Talbot

Suraj T Poozhiyil

Richard Lee Dickinson

Chad B Rothschiller

Brian Scott Ruble

Jonathan D Esterly

Gregory Scott Lindhorst

Neil Warren Black

Karen Xiaoxu Cheng

Sumit Chauhan

Jenefer Lea Monroe

Sanjay Jacob

Ryan Christopher McMinn

Roger Wolff

Josh Leong

Nilanjan Banerjee

Michael Hopkins Smith

Amarinder Singh Grewal

Jonathan McPherson

George R Fordham

Louisa Lee

Jonathan M Sigler

Andrew M Warden

Abigail Elisabeth Short

Michael J Eatough

Russell Sinclair

Robbie A Paplin

Tosh Kawai

Tiginesh M Beyene

Lieh T Han

Peter D Mullen

Robert E Coggins

Ryan Mcminn

Michael J Mccormack

Christopher W Bryant

Victore Selca

Stephen Lesser

A touch input mode may be entered and exited automatically and/or manually. When the touch input mode is entered, user interface (UI) elements are optimized for touch input. When the touch input mode is exited, the user interface (UI) elements are optimized for hardware based input. A user may enter the touch input mode by manually selecting a user interface element and/or by entering touch input. Settings may be configured that specify conditions upon which the touch input mode is entered/exited. For example, the touch input mode may be configured to be automatically entered upon undocking a computing device, receiving touch input when in the hardware based input mode, and the like. Similarly, the touch input mode may be configured to be automatically exited upon docking a computing device, receiving hardware based input when in the touch input mode, and the like.

Input mode recognition

Touch mode and input type recognition

A database tier maintains and provides access to a database. An application tier receives and responds to requests for a form. The form includes data defining a first UI control for displaying a first value from the database and a second UI control for displaying a second value from the database that is dependent upon the first value. A client tier renders the form to show the first value in the first UI control and to show the second value in the second UI control. The client tier also detects a modification to the first value and causes an updated second value to be generated in response to detecting the modification to the first value. The updated second value is displayed by way of the second UI control. The updated second value is generated at the client tier, the application tier, the database tier, or at a combined application/database tier.

Synchronization of form fields in a client-server environment

Animation for the expansion and collapse of content in a user interface may be provided. The user interface may be displayed by a computer and may contain a content surface for editing content. The content may include a top data row and data items in rows below the top data row on the content surface. The computer may then receive an input to expand/collapse the data items into the top data row. The computer may then animate a display of the data items expanding/collapsing into the top data row. Animation for the sorting of content in a user interface may also be provided. The user interface may be displayed by a computer and may contain a content surface for editing a plurality of rows containing content. The computer may then receive a request to sort the content. The computer may then animate a sort of the content.

Animation for expanding/collapsing content and for sorting content in an electronic document

Technologies are described herein for generating a platform-independent data application. In one method, a definition of a data schema is received for defining data types. A definition of a user interface is also received for access data stored in the data types. Further, a definition of business logic is received for enforcing validation rules and actions associated with the data types. The definitions of the data schema, the user interface, and the business logic are each received in a platform-independent format and used to generate the platform-independent data application.

Platform-independent data application description language

A plurality of database application components available in a first components store is received. A plurality of pointers is created with each of the plurality of pointers referencing a selected object, such as the plurality of database application components or an existing pointer to one of the plurality of database application components. The plurality of pointers is collected into a reference group defining a plurality of selected objects included in a database application. In some examples, the database application components include a header, a footer, a control, a fragment, a table, a query, a report, a relation, a form, a conditional formatting statement, a programming component, a validation statement and a module.

Database application assembly and preparation

A palette of representations that can be generated by an application for database, spreadsheet, word processing, and the like, is provided in response to a request for a new object within the application. If the application already has one or more objects open at the time of the request, the representations are also determined based on the context of the data such as from any currently open object(s). The new object is then generated based on the selected representation from the palette, the context of the data, and a structure of data consumed by the application. The layout parameters for the new object are automatically set based on the current context, the structure of the data, and the selected representation.

Quick-creating objects in an application

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls of a database application. When a task-based functionality tab is selected from the user interface, selectable functionality controls provided by the associated database application for performing aspects of a task related to the selected tab are presented in a ribbon-shaped user interface above a workspace in which a user is entering or editing data. Upon selection of a different task-based functionality tab, the presentation of functionality controls associated with the first task is removed, and selectable functionality controls associated with the second selected task-based functionality tab are presented in the user interface. The selectable functionality controls presented in the user interface are grouped into logical groupings for more efficient utilization. An extensibility model is provided for allowing users to develop and use customized user interfaces and to allow utilization of legacy user interfaces.

Command user interface for displaying selectable functionality controls in a database application

A customized form is provided for entering parameters associated with a query. A user may desire to modify a report resulting from a query to a database. To enter the parameters for modification, a customized form is displayed to the user. The customized form allows for entry of the parameters according to prompts that are related by their presentation to the form being generated.

Customizable parameter user interface

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