Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Frank Fan

David Searle Noble

Ian M Bavey

Michael S Hayton

David N Trowbridge

Vinay Bharadwaj

Jack Greenfield

Andrew Willis Bliven, Ii

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing an integration framework that enables tools to be integrated. The integration framework enables tools participating in the framework to be encapsulated in a manner that hides their implementations, thereby preventing them from taking deep dependencies on each other. The integration framework also enables the tools participating in the framework to carry formal type definitions called service and data contracts that describe the public behaviors they offer. The integration framework also provides support for migrating integration logic from tools into pluggable commands to further reduce coupling between the tools.

Integrating loosely coupled tools using contracts and references

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Frank Fan