Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Eric Gordon Knox

Arthur Charles Leonard

Sean Conway Draine

David Kehl Templin

Kevin Mehlhaff

Wenying Hu

Tyler Dunkel

Lifeng Lu

Viktor Veis

Sean Hsi Lee

Pavel Ustinov

Theodore Charles Van Zwol, Ii

Filip Krzeminski

Theodore Charles Ii Van Zwol

The present disclosure provides enhanced techniques for dynamically monitoring and controlling user experiences on a website based on user activity of associated software applications. A system can offer a number of web pages to different user groups in an experiment. Each web page can describe respective configurations of an application, and each user group may receive a particular web page based on one or more criteria. An application installer and a resource identifier are transmitted to the client device in response to an installation request. A configuration file is also delivered to the client device based on the resource identifier. The configuration file causes the installation of a particular application configuration on the client device. The application configuration sends telemetry data indicating user retention data to a service. A usage report summarizing the telemetry data is generated and utilized to adjust the criteria for controlling one or more experiments.

Dynamic monitoring and control of web page experiences based upon user activity of associated applications

An error/exception helper may provide tailored help when an error such as an exception is generated. A source program editor interface may be displayed and/or focus given to the program editor interface. An error/exception bubble or tool tip may be displayed, which, in one embodiment of the invention, points to the line of code that generated the exception. The error/exception bubble may include a link to a help topic or the actual help text may be displayed within the bubble. The bubble may also include one or more actions that may be taken to correct the error or a link to a procedure to perform the action(s). The source code may be edited, actions initiated and execution re-initiated at which time the bubble and editor interface display may be dismissed.

Error/exception helper

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