Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ion Todirel

Bogdan Ionut Mihalcea

Ankit Asthana

Olga Arkhipova

Marian Luparu

An enhanced compiler recognizes debug script which is embedded with program statements in a source code, and emits compiled code containing various debugger command instructions among program instructions. Embedded commands are not limited to break or assert statements. Different portions of a program's compiled code are either tailored for debugging or else performance optimized, depending on the location and kind of embedded debug script statements. Debugger commands for debugging race conditions, intermittent bugs, mutation testing code versions, and other complex development challenges are documented and versioned as part of the source code. Program process execution paths are chosen based on call stack search results, touch counts, breakpoint status, and other data accessed via a debugger. Debug script statements are categorized and utilized to balance debugging support against performance optimization in code from a source generator, or just-in-time code.

Debugger script embedded in debuggable program source code

Some embodiments track internal actions of a development tool, and actions of a user of the tool. When the user faces a problem, information about the problem state is matched to a mitigation graph that was built from other user's sessions with the tool. Then documentation contextualized to the problem is synthesized, e.g., using machine learning models, and presented to the user. In addition to text and images, the documentation may include interaction points such as hyperlinks or buttons associated with code that mitigates the problem. For example, a mitigation sequence may proactively instruct the tool to perform certain actions such as an install or build or undo, or may automatically operate the tool user interface proactively in place of the user. Mitigation sequences may be sorted, and subjected to cost or outcome desirability prioritization. An administration tool provides mitigation graph management functionality. Personally identifiable information presence is constrained.

Contextual assistance and interactive documentation

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are described that enable local builds to be substantially equivalent with remote builds. In embodiments, local build and design-time inputs and/or outputs of a local build environment hosted on a local computing device are projected to remote build and design-time inputs and/or outputs of a remote build environment hosted on a remote computing device. In further embodiments, remote build and design-time inputs and/or outputs of the remote build environment are projected to local build and design time inputs and/or outputs of the local build environment. In still further embodiments, first build and design-time inputs and/or outputs of a first build environment hosted on a computing device are projected to second build and design-time inputs and/or outputs of a second build environment hosted on the same computing device.

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