Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Daniel Edward Seefeldt

Steven P Anonsen

Steven Virgil Harter

Jason Alan Huck

Michael R Simons

Patrick E Plaisted

Timothy J Brookins

Paul Roger Bramel

Adrian L Orth

Eric B Beran

Premanand Ramanathan

Techniques for configuring validation rules in a client-server architecture, and for enforcing such validation rules are provided. A developer is enabled to configure a display screen for an application to enable a user at a client to input data. The developer is further enabled to input a validation rule that is configured to be applied to validate the data at the client and/or at a server. The validation rule is integrated into code of the application. During execution of the application, a client-side rules engine may be present to evaluate the validation rule at the client, and a server-side rules engine may be present to evaluate the validation rule at the server. The client-side rules engine and server-side rules engine may be configured to evaluate validation rules in an asynchronous manner.

Validation pipeline

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for combined saving and validation are disclosed. A particular method includes receiving a command to save changes associated with a change set to a data storage device. Entities of the change set are validated and one or more pre-operation commands are executed on the change set. When a pre-operation command modifies one or more first entities of the change set, the first entities are revalidated. The method also includes executing a data operation based on the change set and executing one or more post-operation commands on the change set. When a post-operation command modifies one or more second entities of the change set, the second entities are re-validated.

Combined save and validation logic

A system supplies links between objects. A link service receives a link request from a client. The request identifies a source object. The link service aggregates links from link providers for which the source object is a source of the links, and provides the aggregated links to the client.

Hypermedia management system

A programming model for customized data objects is provided. For several embodiments, a method for providing customizable data objects comprises storing an abstract definition of an entity in metadata, the definition including a set of properties of the entity; and generating an entity view class based on the set of properties of the entity and including at least one property of the entity in the entity view. When programming against the entity view class, only those properties included in the entity view class are allowed to be seen or modified.

Programming model for customized data objects

A system supplies links between objects. A link service receives a hypermedia link request from a client. The hypermedia request identifies a source object. A link provider analyzes association metadata and creates hypermedia links between the source object and associated objects identified from the metadata.

Metadata based hypermedia management system

A query web service wraps functionality of a number of database query subsystems. The query web service exposes interfaces with methods, when invoked, perform a wide variety of functions related to querying the database. Such methods allow a user to write to the interface to create, manage and execute queries against the entities in the database.

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Daniel Edward Seefeldt