Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ehab Sobhy

Igor B Peev

Curtis Glenn Wong

Jonathan Edgar Fay

B Scott Ruble

John Alfred Payne

Kevin Fan

Jai Srinivasan

Lewey Geselowitz

Rolando Jimenez Salgado

Chandramouli Venkatesh

Xing Wu

Daniel Benjamin Witriol

Sonu Arora

Zlatko Michailov

John Zhongqi Wang

Jay R Rathi

Safiya Bhojawala

Alexandru Croicu

Artem D Yegorov

Puneet Bhatia

Shaofeng Zhu

Robert Ion Gavrila

Hardik V Shah

Thomas Alexander Morrison

James Thomas Marshall

Hailei Zhang

Arthur Greef

Sudheer Maremanda

Chae Seong Lim

Michael J Saunders

Hoe Jin Kim

Paavany Jayanty

Ramesh Gururaja

Abhimanyu Sharma

Nicholas Weinandt

Jagan Subhas

Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for supporting custom functions within an application. An application add-in is received that includes a custom function and a custom function location. The application is available across multiple platforms. The custom function is also available across multiple platforms. The custom function is registered within the application using the custom function location. A request to invoke the custom function is received within the application A custom function implementation is downloaded from the custom function location. The custom function implementation is executed. A return value is received from the custom function implementation. The return value may be displayed within the application.

Cross platform custom functions

Various techniques for visualizing cross-pivoted tables are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes determining if a first dimension and a second dimension of a cross-pivoted table contain non-numerical values, the cross-pivoted table having a plurality of data points each dependent upon a first value in the first dimension and a second value in the second dimension. In response to determining that the first dimension and the second dimension contain non-numerical first and second values, the non-numerical first and second values can be converted to corresponding numerical first and second values. The method can then include plotting, on a display, a visual representation of the plurality of data points of the cross-pivoted table using the numerical first and second numerical values as first and second axis, respectively.

Visualization of cross-pivoted data

Concepts and technologies are described herein for generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer system executes a visualization component. Selection of an option to create a tour can be detected by the computer system. In response to detecting selection of the option, the computer system can create a tour. The computer system also can detect selection of an option to add a scene to the tour. The tour can be saved. Playback of the tour can be started in response to detecting selection of a play option. If the playback is paused, changes made to the tour and/or the scenes can be tracked by the computer system, and an updated version of the tour can be saved.

Generating scenes and tours in a spreadsheet application

Systems and methods are provided to improve map type data visualizations in which custom images are used as background against which datasets are visualized. In various examples, coordinate systems are automatically generated and applied to the custom image based on the positional data of the dataset. The custom image may replace a pre-existing background, and the plotting of the dataset may be automatically modified based on differences between the pre-existing background and the custom image. Aspects provide for enhanced user control of the map type visualization to further modify how datasets are plotted and how visualizations are presented. Example modifications include offsets and scales, which may be automatically determined and applied or set manually. In some examples, the custom image may be part of a set of image tiles, which are operable to provide various levels of detail from several viewing angles and heights.

Custom map configuration

Concepts and technologies are described herein for displaying temporal information in a spreadsheet application. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, spreadsheet data can be obtained at a computer system. The spreadsheet data can include data values, temporal information, and geographic information. The computer system can generate a visualization of the spreadsheet data based, at least partially, upon the data values, the temporal information, and the geographic location information. The computer system also can output the visualization.

Displaying temporal information in a spreadsheet application

An environment is described in which a cloud-implemented service system controls a plurality of target devices via a plurality of respective device-agnostic pipe mechanisms. The target devices themselves may represent 'dumb' devices, e.g., lacking local control logic, or providing reduced reliance on local control logic. Users may interact with the service system via applications running on any type of user devices.

Controlling devices using cloud services and device-agnostic pipe mechanisms

Concepts and technologies are described herein for modeling and consuming business policy rules. A policy server executes a policy application for modeling and storing the business policy rules. The business policy rules are modeled and stored in a data storage device according to an extensible policy framework architecture that can be tailored by administrators or other entities to support business-specific needs and/or operations. The modeled business policy rules can be used to support enforcement of business policy rules against various business operations, as well as allowing histories and/or other audits of business policy rules to be completed based upon information stored as the business policy rules.

Modeling and consuming business policy rules

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates integrating two or more applications for secure sharing of data. A line of business (LOB) system can include a portion of metadata associated with a business application. An adapter can employ a dynamic service contract to the LOB system, wherein the service contract is a fluid contract constructed in real time from a portion of metadata selected within the LOB system. Moreover, the adapter can enable a client to access the portion of metadata selected via the service contract.

Framework for development of integration adapters that surface non-static, type-safe service contracts to LOB systems

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Ehab Sobhy