Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Eray Aydin

Robert McKee Howard

Shaofeng Zhu

Qi Chen

Titus Constantin Miron

William R Taylor

Venkatesh Veeraraghavan

Patrick Dengler

Alexandru Croicu

Jiajun Hua

Sripriya P Vasudevan

Goksel Genc

Jose Julian Argil Torres

David Moreno

Lawrence Michael Sanchez, Ii

Naganandhini Kohareswaran

Sudheer Maremanda

Abhishek Kumar Sharma

Joseph C Chang

Rachna Vargiya

Brenton Michael Moffit

Robert Mckee Howard

A computer implemented method for updating a host application with an individual feature includes operations for pinging a server via an installer associated with the host application on a client device to obtain information regarding one or more available features, downloading a feature from one or more available features from the server to the client device, and updating, via the installer, the host application with the feature.

Feature installer for software programs

An application submits a permission request to a resource server. In response to receiving the request, the resource server generates a user interface that asks the user to grant or deny the requested permissions. If the permissions are granted, data is stored indicating that the application has the requested permissions. When a runtime request for a resource is received, the resource server determines whether the request has been made by a user, by an application, or by an application on behalf of a user. If the request is made by an application only, the request is granted only if the application has permission to access the resource by way of a direct call not on behalf of a user. If the request is made by an application on behalf of a user, the request is granted only if both the user and the application have sufficient permission.

Authorizing application access to secure resources

Remote event receivers can register with a document repository computing system to receive notifications of events occurring at a document repository. The remote event receivers may register to receive notifications synchronously, whereby the remote event receivers can provide a response to the notification prior to the occurrence of the event, or asynchronously, whereby the remote event receivers provide no response. Synchronous remote event receivers can also specify in a response to the notification that the event should be canceled or may specify properties that should be changed. Remote event receivers can be pre-event receivers that receive notifications prior to the occurrence of an event, or post-event receivers that receive notifications following the event. When an event is to occur at the document repository, notifications are provided to the pre-event remote event receivers. Once the event has occurred, notifications are provided to the post-event remote event receivers.

Providing notification of document repository events to external systems

Embodiments provide a software model which allows a user to modify a software program in substantially the same manner as the original programmer or developer. In one embodiment, declarative code and user customizations are isolated from other code and structure of the software program. The isolated customizations can be quickly and efficiently examined to determine whether any changes or other modifications have been made to the software program. Additionally, the isolated changes can be efficiently located and applied when updating or upgrading the software program to persist any customized changes made to the software program.

Isolating declarative code to preserve customizations

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Eray Aydin