Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mehmet Kerem Kiziltunc

Stuart Glasson

Christian Olaf Abeln

Torben Wind Meyhoff

Uffe Kjall

Thomas Sondergaard Jensen

Thomas Hejlsberg

Dean Charles McCrae

Esben Nyhuus Kristoffersen

Anders Hauge

Lars-Bo Christiansen

Alexey Ovsyannikov

Brian Elgaard Bennett

Julia Lisovaya

Palle D Larsen

Soren Grubov

Benjamin Brink Allsopp

Claus Busk Andersen

A system for extending an enterprise resource planning application is provided. The system employs 'Add-ins' that each have a functional behavior that is independent of the client on which it executes and a user interface behavior that is dependent on the characteristics of the display, and other characteristics, of the client (i.e., a display target). When a user attempts to invoke an Add-in via the client runtime, the client runtime determines whether the Add-in is available at the user's computer. If not, the client runtime downloads the appropriate artifact for execution at the user's computer. In this environment, neither the client runtime nor the server-side business logic contains the logic used to implement a particular Add-in behavior on the supported display targets. Instead, this logic is contained within separate artifacts associated with a single Add-in having a particular behavior, each artifact implementing the behavior for a specific display target.

Add-ins dynamically extending display targets and business-logic programming model

A method of creating alerts in a database system is disclosed. The method may include allowing the selection of at least one field or record to be monitored, determining the data in a database that affects the value of the selected field or record, storing a trigger related to the data determined to affect the value of the selected field or record wherein the trigger communicates if the data is accessed and creating a notification of the communication of the trigger.

End user defined event rules for ERP applications

Increased reporting capabilities from a database system may be available in a customer relationship system while functionality of the customer relationship management system is maintained.

Integration of database reporting with ERP systems

A system to enables Rapid Application Development ('RAD') is provided. The system provides an object model of an ERP application, which enables software developers to customize the ERP applications. The object model provides a base class that is inherited by each object class. The base class provides an invoke function that is implemented by each object class. During compilation, the RAD system compiles each invocation of a function of an object into a call to a dynamic component passing an identifier of the object, an identifier of the function to be invoked, and the parameters to be passed to the function. The RAD system dynamically compiles, assembles, and instantiates object classes as needed. Because objects are bound at runtime, rather than at compile time, when the source code of an object is modified, the entire ERP application does not need to be recompiled into monolithic IL code and the compilation of object classes is deferred until an object of that class is needed during runtime. The object model thus significantly decreases the time required to customize and extend an ERP application according to the needs of an individual customer.

Rapid application development

A checkpoint system is provided to quickly identify differences or deltas between a baseline version and a modified version of a database and to quickly restore the database to the baseline version using the deltas. The checkpoint system identifies the deltas between versions of the database by a rapid comparison of the rows of each table within a baseline version and a modified version of the database. The checkpoint system can use the rapid comparison when testing to identify sets of deltas resulting from performing an old procedure on a test database and a new procedure on the test database. The rapid comparison can be applied to these sets of deltas to identify differences resulting from the new procedure. The deltas can also be used to rapidly restore a database from a modified version to a baseline version.

Generation of database deltas and restoration

A method of transforming reports from one version of software to another version is disclosed. The method exports existing report objects in an existing first version report into XML format to a transformation tool and then to a layout transformation tool. An XML object is created and is imported into a report in the second version.

Transformation of versions of reports

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Mehmet Kerem Kiziltunc