Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jason Michael Allor

Daniel C Patton

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen

Kenneth Van Hyning

Chen Egozi

Stephen Kelly

Nina Kang

Igor Pankovcin

Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing source control of custom code in a backend-as-a-service (BaaS) module. For instance, the custom code may be automatically loaded dynamically (e.g., on-demand) in a runtime that is hosted by the BaaS module while the runtime is running to provide custom backend features that are defined by the custom code to an application in response to receipt of a request from the application. Source control of the custom code may be provided without providing source control of host code that defines the runtime.

Enabling access to backend code that defines custom backend feature(s) without enabling access to host code that hosts the backend code

Providing source control of custom code for a user without providing source control of host code for the user

A method and system for displaying information in a user interface of a computer program uses documents, such as mark-up language documents and style-sheet language documents, to specify how the user interface is to be rendered on a computer display. The user interface has a variety of possible appearances, or 'skins.'

Method and system for displaying information on a user interface

A method and system for making resources available is provided, in which a hierarchy, such as a tree having expandable and collapsible branches, is presented on a user interface. The hierarchy represents a logical arrangement of resources that available to a user. The hierarchy may be organized in a variety of ways, such as by resource category, functional area, project, sub-project, or task grouping. The resources made available may, for example, allow employees of an organization to perform tasks. When a user selects a node on the hierarchy, a group of links that are usable to open files or execute programs is presented. These links may be used to access the available resources and, for example, accomplish tasks of the organization.

Method and system for making resources available

The present invention is contained in a system for facilitating the identification, discovery, and monitoring of servers and services within a distributed network. The present invention is a system for dynamically discovering all of the servers and services on a network. The dynamic discovery of servers includes first enumerating all of the domains within a network and second enumerating all of the known servers in each of the discovered domains. Next, the system acquires and stores additional server contact information necessary to robustly connect to the server. Finally, the system determines the role of a server in a specified domain within a network. The system will continually monitor the connections to the servers and may use the server contact information to connect to a server or service when a network failure occurs.

System and methods for robust discovery of servers and services in a heterogeneous environment

The information exchanging facility is used by one wizard page to request the information it needs although it need not know where the information may have come from. This allows wizard pages that have already been developed in one wizard to be reused and placed into new wizards. This information exchanging facility is part of an architectural software framework that aids in the design of an interactive help utility, such as a wizard, that guides a user through steps of a particular task.

Wizard framework

A system and method for displaying plug-in supplied content in a browser-embedded window is provided. A plug-in module supplies content to a host application for display in a browser-embedded window. The plug-in supplied content contains special tags which identify certain processing actions to be taken by the host application on the content prior to display. The special tags in the content relieve the plug-in module from modifying its content upon installation according to the installation location of the host application. The special tags identify references, images, and controls. The control tags enable the plug-in module to receive event messages from controls embedded in the content that are manipulated by a user in the browser-embedded window. The plug-in modules implement a well-defined set of callback routines for receiving the event messages.

Displaying plug-in derived content in an application's browser-embedded window with callbacks

Several systems and associated methodologies are provided for adding one or more property pages to one or more types of data. The property pages are added to a data type based upon a unique identifier associated with the data type. The property pages can be selectively enableable property pages which can be selectively enabled for a particular item for a type of data. In accordance with user input, a property page control can display appropriate property pages to a user via a display.

Dynamic tree-node property page extensions

A method and system for processing data records having multiple formats is provided, in which each format to be parsed has a plug-in module associated with it. Each plug-in module has a uniform interface that can be accessed by, for example, a parsing engine or other client. The parsing engine may, in turn, provide services for manipulating data to the plug-in modules in order to assist them in performing their respective tasks. A standard format is provided to allow data from the records to be stored in a database.

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