Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Haseeb Ahmed

Michael H Krause

Zinaida A Pozen

Benjamin Salim Srour

Matthew Robert Ayers

Yau Ning Chin

Hui Huang

Alex Bendetov

Yunfei Shang

Kumneger T Zelalem

Zoran Dimov

Anand B Iyer

In accordance with one or more aspects, an application that is to be suspended on a computing device is identified based on a policy. The policy indicates that applications that are not being used are to be suspended. The application is automatically suspended, and is allowed to remain in memory but not execute while suspended. Additionally, when memory is to be freed one or more suspended applications to terminate are automatically selected based on the policy, and these one or more selected applications are terminated.

Policy based application suspension and termination

In a computing device running multiple applications, a check is made as to whether a threshold value of multiple threshold values has been met. Each of the multiple threshold values is associated with a characteristic of one of the multiple applications or a characteristic of a resource of the computing device. If the threshold value has not been met, then the multiple applications are allowed to continue running on the computing device. However, if the threshold value has been met, then one or more of the multiple applications to shut down is selected based at least in part on the characteristic associated with the threshold value that has been met, and the selected application is shut down.

Application lifetime management

Modern application tracing techniques are described herein that enable dynamic logging of events declared in a static manifest. Various events for logging can be declared in a static manifest. The static manifest may then be compiled to translate the declared events into a library of corresponding functions that can be called by 'modern' applications written using dynamic code. Calls made to these functions from dynamic code are converted to corresponding static events and forwarded to existing tracing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to handle logging of static events for 'legacy' applications that use compiled code. In this manner, static functions that are compatible with tracing APIs can be created and called dynamically from dynamic code. This can occur without requiring administrative rights to install the code and while preserving existing features for legacy applications, such that a tracing log can include events from both modern applications and legacy applications.

Modern application tracing

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