Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mei-Chin Tsai

Abolade Gbadegesin

Yasser Elsayed Shaaban

Adina Magdalena Trufinescu

Scott Michael Wiltamuth

Rajiv Kumar

Alan W Carter

Sameer Tejani

Subramanian Ramaswamy

Casimir Lakshan Fernando

Ashish Babbar

Yi Zhang

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Raja Krishnaswamy

Christopher David Brown

Sean Edwin Trowbridge

Beysim Sezgin

David Charles Wrighton

Mahesh Prakriya

David Mitford Gillies

Peter Alan Carlin

Alan C Shi

Ilan Gabriel Caron

Steven J Pratschner

Morgan Asher Brown

Suzanne Maurine Cook

Mason K Bendixen

Ian H Carmichael

Satish Kumar Chittamuru

WeiWen Liu

Ian Michael Bearman

Erdembilegt Janchivdorj

David Adam Hartglass

Shah Mohammad Faizur Rahman

Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of tools and techniques for installing, executing, and/or updating managed applications through generation of native code from code in an intermediate language. According to one exemplary technique, a computing device receives machine dependent intermediate language code (MDIL code) generated by an online provider for an application. Additionally, the computing device installs the application on the computing device by generating a native image for the application, which includes binding a portion of the MDIL code with one or more libraries on the computing device. Also, the native image is stored on the computing device for use in loading the application for execution.

Generating native code from intermediate language code for an application

A mechanism for generating optimized native code for a program having dynamic behavior uses a static analysis of the program to predict the likelihood that different elements of the program are likely to be used when the program executes. The static analysis is performed prior to execution of the program and marks certain elements of the program with confidence indicators that classify the elements with either a high level of confidence or a low level of confidence. The confidence indicators are then used by an ahead-of-time native compiler to generate native code and to optimize the code for faster execution and/or a smaller-sized native code.

Differentiated static analysis for dynamic code optimization

Systems and methods for enhanced runtime hosting are described. In one aspect the runtime hosting interface includes a host abstraction interface. The HAI allowing the runtime to configure host execution environment parameters and/or notify the host of a runtime event. In particular, the host abstraction interface (HAI) corresponds to execution environment abstractions supported by a host application. Responsive to an action or event, the runtime invokes an identified HAI or an associated object during execution of runtime managed code.

Runtime hosting interfaces

The present system for application independent programming of controls functions to provide a common set of controls across a plurality of application programs, such as those typically included in an office suite installed on a processor, while also enabling users to customize these controls for each application program. This is accomplished by producing an interface in the underlying common programming model which enables the user to access a set of controls, with their standard properties, methods and events, in a consistent manner. The user can then create a user defined control in a particular application program without having to replicate the underlying common programming model on which the customization is based. The user creates an extender file to add to and/or modify the standard properties, methods and events of a control to thereby produce an extended control for use in the selected application program. The system for application independent programming of controls merges, at run time, the standard control and the extender file to create the customized control. This enables users to create customized controls without having to replicate the common programming model and also enables consistency of control implementation. The control can also be uniformly updated across the plurality of application programs by simply updating the underlying control on which the customized instances are based.

System for application independent programming of controls

The system for instance customization with application independent programming of controls functions to place code behind documents in a multi-program environment in a manner that eliminates the object instance management problems of existing systems. The system consists of the process whereby the behavior of an object is changed by the user without changing its identity. In particular, the system for instance customization with application independent programming of controls combines a customizable object and a language engine object to form the customized instance of the object. Instance customization is enabled by the customized object aggregating the user defined customizations into a standard object that is supplied by Visual Basic. The Visual Basic object is given a pointer to the standard part of the document object which implements the base functionality of the document.

System for instance customization with application independent programming of controls

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Mei-Chin Tsai