Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonathan C Hawkins

Gopala Krishna R Kakivaya

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Caleb L Doise

Manish S Prabhu

Raja Krishnaswamy

Lance Olson

Henry L Sanders

Brian M Grunkemeyer

David S Ebbo

Sean Edwin Trowbridge

Jeffrey M Cooperstein

Tarun Anand

Erik B Christensen

Anders Hejlsberg

Michael M Magruder

David Bau

Brian LaMacchia

Julie D Bennett

James S Miller

Travis Muhlestein

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Seth Mitchell Demsey

Christopher L Anderson

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Shawn Patrick Burke

Loren Kohnfelder

Yung-Shin Lin

Anthony J Moore

Erik B Olson

Yann Christensen

Fabio A Yeon

James H Hogg

Corina Eva Feuerstein

Adam Wade Smith

Craig T Sinclair

David S Mortenson

Shajan Dasan

Alan Geoffrey Boshier

Radu Rares Palanca

John I McConnell

Suzanne Maurine Cook

Stephen Peter De Jong

Joseph L Roxe

Hany E Ramadan

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Ramasamy Krishnaswamy

Joe Dennis Long

Daniel Takacs

Jayanth V Rajan

Gregory Darrell Fee

David Owen Driver

Nikhil Kothari

Dmitry Robsman

Shanku Shivabrata Niyogi

Manu Vasandani

Arun Moorthy

Petrus L Obermeyer

Jan Stephen Gray

Amit Gupta

Yan Valerie Leshinsky

Stephen James Millet

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Scott David Guthrie

Luca Bolognese

Keith W Ballinger

Brian Keith Pepin

Mark T Anders

Jun Fang

Alan C Shi

Susan M Warren

Robert Michael Howard

Nicholas M Kramer

Chad W Royal

Mark W Fussell

Ting-Hao Yang

Sreeram Nivarthi

Omri Gazitt

Mark A Boulter

Nithyalakshmi Sampathkumar

Savithri N Dani

Daniel Dedu-Constantin

Neetu Rajpal

Blaine J Dockter

William A Adams

Mark P Ashton

Subhag P Oak

Tarun Ramsinghani

Parthasarathy Krishnaswamy

Parasuraman Narasimhan

George D Fee

Matthew R Smith

A computing device includes one or more rich internet application (RIA) client engines. Each RIA client engine includes a corresponding private RIA storage area. The computing device also includes a per-RIA public storage area for each RIA. The per-RIA public storage area including a subset of data items in the private RIA storage area of the corresponding RIA client engine. A search engine of the computing device may search the data items in the one or more per-RIA public storage areas and link to content in the private RIA storage area of the corresponding RIA client engine at a given data item matching a search request.

Search techniques for rich internet applications

Embodiments are directed to securing mixed-mode applications in a semi-trusted environment. In an embodiment, a computer system securely loads native data files associated with a mixed-mode application. The secure loading ensures that the native components upon which the managed component depends are authentic. The computer system implements a securely stored handle associated with the loaded native data files to provide secure communications between the managed component and the loaded native data files. The handle provides a trusted function pointer to an associated mixed-mode application function. The computer system also initiates a security permission request for each resource that is passed to the native components during execution of the mixed-mode application, so that each resource is verified before execution.

Securing mixed-mode applications

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for capturing diagnostics for Web browser applications. Embodiments of the present invention can capture errors in client-side code for a Web application and automatically report them a Web Service. Diagnostics code can be automatically injected into client code to capture client-side diagnostic information, including but not limited to errors in Web application code (script code, managed code, etc) that runs in a Web browser. The client-side diagnostic information can be automatically forwarded to a Web service under the control of the Web application. The Web application operator can use this information to improve the quality and hence customer satisfaction of their Web application.

Capturing diagnostics in web browser applications

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for discovering alternative user experiences for Websites. Embodiments of the invention permit a user to navigate to a Web page that has an alternative application for a Web site. In response to a Web browser detecting the alternative application a user-interface control at the Web browser can be activated. A user can then select the user-interface control to install the alternative application in an alternative application control center. Through the alternative application control center, a user activates alternative applications to interact with Web sites having alternative user experiences.

Discovering alternative user experiences for websites

In a distributed computing system containing multiple entities such as servers and clients, an object passed between the entities is attached with metadata identifying the type of the object and/or types and values of properties associated with the object. Before the object is passed to an entity in the distributed computing system, the object may be serialized into a data format that the receiving entity can understand.

Preservation of type information between a client and a server

Described herein is an implementation for exposing an 'execution context' to a logical execution flow of procedures as it executes. An 'execution context' is a set of data and/or sub-procedures that might be useful at some point during a logical execution flow (to manage and control the execution flow and provide additional services to the execution flow) of computer-executable instructions though the often complex, intertwined, and interconnected conglomeration of procedures of software product(s).

Execution context infrastructure

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating search enabled Web pages. A search engine crawler requests a Web page. A Web server receives the request and constructs a Web page that includes client-side script configured to obtain a portion of content at a Web browser. The Web server inserts textual (e.g., HTML) hinting data for the client-side script into the Web page. When analyzed at the search engine, the textual hinting data provides similar analysis results to analysis results obtained from analyzing the portion of content that is to be obtained at through execution of the client-side script. Thus, the Web server can provide the search engine with information to sufficiently index the Web page even when the search engine lacks the capability to execute the client-side script.

Creating search enabled web pages

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for offline execution of Web based applications. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate the local storage of Web based executable instructions and data at a computer system. The Web based executable instructions and data can be used to locally fulfill requests (directed to a domain that sent the executable instructions and data for storage) from modules associated with a Web browser at the computer system. Accordingly, locally stored Web based executable instructions and data can be used at a computer system to simulate communication with Web site when the Web site is otherwise unavailable.

Offline execution of web based applications

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for locally storing Web-based database data. Embodiments of the present invention permit Web-based database data to be locally stored at a computer system to increase the efficiency of rendering the Web-based database data within a Web browser at the computer system. Web-based database data can be sandboxed per domain to mitigate (and possibly eliminate) the exposure of the Web-based database data to malicious computer systems. Space allocated to each domain can be initially set and then subsequently altered by a user.

Locally storing web-based database data

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamic sitemap creation. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate the placement of executable code behind a Sitemap feed. The executable code is configured to access objects from a data source (e.g., database, other data collection, Web service, etc.) and translates the objects into XML for inclusion in a Sitemap. Sitemap properties can be included in a configuration file and/or in a derived class and preserved within Sitemap entries. Thus, a Sitemap can be created directly and automatically from data at a data source. Accordingly, a Sitemap can be created without having to manually re-enter data from the data source into the Sitemap.

Dynamic sitemap creation

An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET&#x2122; platform.

Computing system and method for allowing plurality of applications written in different programming languages to communicate and request resources or services via a common language runtime layer

An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions, including a set of base classes and types that are used in substantially all applications accessing the API, for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET&#x2122; platform.

Application program interface for network software platform

A system and method for providing a pluggable channel that can be employed to customize data communications associated with a remote method call is provided. The system includes a pluggable channel that can interact with sinks (e.g., message sinks, security sinks, transports sinks) that implement object-oriented interfaces that can be employed by a distributed object system. The system also includes a selector that can select and associate sinks with the pluggable channel, which facilitates providing a customized, pluggable channel on a per proxy basis.

Remote method calling through pluggable channels

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