Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Eng

Izydor Gryko

John Joseph Rivard

C Douglas Hodges

Gregory Darrell Fee

Brian Robert Crawford

Elliot H Omiya

Bradley Bartz

Scott Michael Wiltamuth

Thomas E Quinn

Paul Yuknewicz

Eric Hyde Carter

Stephanie Sweeny Saad

William Edwin Hiebert

Sean Conway Draine

David Kehl Templin

James Gordon Cantwell

Baiju K Nair

Michal Sampson

Adam Krantz

A system and method that allows developers to debug a component while it is restricted by any arbitrary set of specific permissions, or restricted by an existing permission set associated with a security 'zone.' A security sandbox is mimicked within the development environment so that developers can study how applications perform inside the sandbox. Developers are able create any sandbox and debug inside it, where violating any bound of the artificial sandbox will throw a security exception and drop the user out on the exact line of code which generated the error, as well as provide helpful information about how to correct the error.

Debugging applications under different permissions

A client or Web application assembly or group of assemblies is bound to a version of shared assemblies associated with a particular targeted execution environment. The targeted execution environment (and thus the version of shared assemblies associated with it) may be selected or detected. A file such as a configuration file is automatically modified. The selected or detected execution environment may be the same as or different than the local version. The client or Web assembly is automatically bound to the targeted shared assemblies. A user interface enables the selection of a particular execution environment. Alternatively, a user interface informs of the detected targeted execution environment and enables the reconfiguration of the Web assembly. This invention provides a mechanism and process for maintaining legacy software after a new software development tool is installed, without deploying a new version of shared assemblies.

Cross version customization of design environment

Specific tasks associated with debugging are performed in the background, prior to a user of an application development tool invoking the debugger. The tasks including (1) starting a hosting process, (2) loading a hosted runtime environment (e.g., .NET runtime) in the process, and (3) attaching a debugger to the hosting process, are performed in the background before the user commences debugging. Once the user invokes the debugger, the user's application is executed and debugged. Thus, the perceived time to start debugging is greatly reduced.

Method and system for fast application debugging

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