Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael J Eatough

Vijay Mital

Michael J McCormack

Steven Miles Greenberg

Richard Lee Dickinson

Clinton Dee Covington

Andrew Robert Miller

Gregory Scott Lindhorst

Neil Warren Black

Eric W Patterson

Su-Piao Bill Wu

Pavel R Karimov

Sumit Chauhan

Robert Wayne Coffen

Zachary P Woodall

Robert Scott Cooper

Xiaohui Pan

Paul A Hafner

Larry Tseng

Technologies are described herein for generating a platform-independent data application. In one method, a definition of a data schema is received for defining data types. A definition of a user interface is also received for access data stored in the data types. Further, a definition of business logic is received for enforcing validation rules and actions associated with the data types. The definitions of the data schema, the user interface, and the business logic are each received in a platform-independent format and used to generate the platform-independent data application.

Platform-independent data application description language

Methods and systems provide for bi-directional communication between a spreadsheet application worksheet and a database data source that allows modified data to be written from a spreadsheet application to source data in a database data source from which the original pre-modified data was obtained. Offline data changes in a spreadsheet application are cached by a data provider application and are published to a remote data source when the spreadsheet application is synchronized with the data source. Error conditions and data conflicts resulting from new or modified data published to a database data source from a spreadsheet application worksheet are reported to a user of the spreadsheet application worksheet through a data provider application to allow the user an opportunity to resolve error conditions and data conflicts between the user's data changes and other data changes made to the same source data contained in the database data source.

Data source write back and offline data editing and storage in a spreadsheet

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Michael J Eatough