Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Craig Allen Lee

Jose Ramon Calzada Gomez

Michael James Coulson

Euan Peter Garden

Kevin David James Grealish

Sumit Gulwani

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Peter Loren Engrav

Haroon Ahmed

Abhishek Udupa

Fabian Omar Winternitz

Ranvijay Kumar

Aditya Unnithan

Vladimir Yuryevich Morozov

To improve efficiency of computing devices and improve the user experience thereon when searching for relevant events, the systems and methods disclosed herein provide event management and automated relevant event discovery. User information and event information are collected and stored, and events are searched for based on relevancy to a user. Relevancy to a user may be based at least in part on at least one of: non-conflict with calendar items in the user's calendar, location, the user's interests, the user's preferences and activity of the user's friends or contacts.

Automated relevant event discovery

Examples are disclosed herein that relate to string transformation sub-program suggestion. One example provides, at a computing device, a method comprising receiving a dataset having a plurality of input strings; receiving a declarative user input associated with a desired string transformation sub-program to be performed using the dataset as input; in a search space having a plurality of string transformation sub-programs, reducing the search space based on (i) the user input and (ii) one or more of the plurality of input strings of the dataset, to thereby form a reduced search space, the reduced search space having at least one string transformation sub-program that is configured to transform one or more of the plurality of input strings of the dataset; and selecting, from the reduced search space, one or more suggested string transformation sub-programs.

String transformation sub-program suggestion

A computer program file or a sequence of processing steps from an authoring environment of a data processing system is used to generate a graph including nodes representing the processing steps is generated. Unique identifiers (tags) are assigned to the nodes. One or more processing steps are optionally modified while preserving the original identifiers. If an error occurs during execution, error information is saved including the processing step that failed and data records that triggered the failure. The identifier of the failed processing step is attached to the error information. The error information is collected and processed. The collected error information is used to correlate the error to the failed processing step and to data records triggering the error using the identifier of the failed processing step recorded with the error information. The correlated error information indicates cause and location of the error.

Systems and methods for correlating errors to processing steps and data records to facilitate understanding of errors

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for touch based selection of graphical elements. Embodiments of the invention improve the usability of interacting with data visualizations. When multiple graphical elements are covered by a finger touch, a gesture recognition component detects ambiguity in the selection. In response, a visualization component draws additional regions around the touched location. The additional regions correspond to the covered graphical elements covered. Thus, a user is made aware of the graphical elements covered by his or her finger. These additional regions are touch friendly and more easily selectable. A finger can be moved into one of the additional regions and released to finish the selection. The gesture recognition component interprets this gesture as if the user tapped directly and unambiguously on the corresponding graphical element.

Touch based selection of graphical elements

A solution authoring tool that includes an authoring environment that allows for the authoring of multiple projects of a solution including a database project that has a schema and a partner project that has a reference to the schema. When the database project is built and deployed, the database schema is made ready for runtime. When the partner project is built and deployed, the schema reference is provided within the partner software such that the partner software may interface with the database schema at runtime. To reduce or eliminate database schema drift at development time causing runtime errors at runtime, a model bus at least partially synchronizes changes made to the schema in the database project to the schema reference in the partner project, and vice versa.

Synchronizing database projects with partner projects

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Craig Allen Lee