Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Juraj Hlavac

Brian Keith Pepin

Charles P Jazdzewski

Mark A Boulter

Gary Linscott

Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan

James Nakashima

Jeffrey Walter Kelly

Alan J Gasperini

The present invention provides technologies for forming an editing interface for editing arbitrary objects. In particular, the present invention provides system and methods for enumerating object properties, selecting a suitable pre-existing object editor and, if no such pre-existing editor is available, constructing an object editor on the fly suitable for editing the properties of the object where the object may include properties and/or collections of objects. Construction of a suitable editor is based on enumeration of object properties and on the serialization of the object using a descriptive language such as extensible markup language ('XML') or the like. Property values specified by a user via the object interface and editors are stored in a descriptive format such as XML and generally specify the initial characteristics of the object.

Arbitrary object editing

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Juraj Hlavac