Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

David Michael Broman

Jonathan White Keljo

Sean Selitrennikoff

Vance Palmer Morrison

Rico Mariani

Sanjeev K Rajan

Hsu-chieh Yuan

Bassam Tabbara

Attila Narin

Shrikrishna Vijaykumar Borde

Ariye M Cohen

Kristi L Cooper

Lin-Fon Shaw

Leland Greg DeMichillie

A profiler may be detached from an actively running application by first sealing communications between the application and profiler, then evacuating the profiler by waiting for any profiler-modified or instrumented code to complete execution, profiler runtime code to complete execution, cleaning up any residual items from the profiler, and shutting down the profiler. The profiler may be operational in many different environments, including a managed environment such as a virtual machine and those environments having just in time compiling of executable code.

Detaching profilers

A profiler manager may attach and detach profilers from a running application. A profiler may be detached through a two step process where the profiler is sealed from communicating with the running application, then an evacuation step where the application is able to complete any responses that are pending. While the profiler is in the evacuation phase, another profiler may be attached to the application. Messages to the evacuating profiler may be captured and directed to the proper profiler.

Profiler management

A call stack includes at least one frame of managed code and at least one frame of unmanaged code. In a multithreaded environment, a request from a diagnostic tool to a tracing function for the call stack is made on a thread that is not associated with the call stack. The tracing function preserves a context for a thread associated with the call stack until the call stack tracing function ends. In a particular embodiment, a method grants access to a stackwalking function, such that when a point on the call stack is designated in a request for the stackwalking function, the stackwalking function commences at the point on the call stack. When no point on the call stack is designated in the request for the stackwalking function, a default position on the call stack is determined based on a last managed frame pushed onto the call stack and the stackwalking function commences at the default position on the call stack.

Profiler stackwalker

Systems, methods and data structures are described for attaching a digital signature to a web page and authenticating the digital signature before allowing the web page to invoke a software control on a computer that has downloaded the web page. Unauthorized users cannot gain access to a control on a computer through a web page that is downloaded to the computer, if the source of the web page or application cannot be authenticated or is not a trusted source.

Systems and methods for limiting access to potentially dangerous code

Methods and systems for rendering information pages are described. A page is divided into panes which are rendered by individual pane renderers. The pane renderers can be shared between pages, or even re-used across multiple applications. Rendering support components or objects are provided and can provide access to shared services or data (e.g. ads, user preferences, scripts, and styles) that might be required by multiple panes on a page. Page descriptions comprising pane renderers are created dynamically in a prescribed fashion by an application. A page renderer service in a platform then processes the page description and causes the appropriate RSOs to be called, initialized, and used by the pane renderers to render the page.

Information server systems and methods of rendering information pages

Custom application project generators are created to generate specific types of computer application programs using an automated procedure implemented in a customizer tool. The customizer tool creates a custom generator project according to options chosen by a writer from a sequence of generator option selection steps. The custom generator project comprises source code files, templates, and dialogs which the writer can further modify using an editor. The custom generator project is compiled and linked to form a custom application project generator which implements an automated procedure for generating a specific type of application defined by the writer. The custom application project generator interfaces with a services module that provides default user interface and code generation services which can be overridden by the writer.

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