Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael James Coulson

Erik B Christensen

Kenneth David Wolf

David Wortendyke

Gregory Lawrence Hughes

Clemens Alden Szyperski

Michael Steven Vernal

Aaron Stern

Tirunelveli R Vishwanath

Kevin David James Grealish

Donald F Box

Marius Dumitru

Stephen Jared Maine

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Michael Marucheck

Elliot Lee Waingold

Euan Peter Garden

Douglas M Purdy

Natasha Harish Jethanandani

Douglas A Walter

Jose Ramon Calzada Gomez

Craig Allen Lee

Ryan Thomas Sturgell

Alexandre Tristan St-Cyr

Faisal Mohamood

Theresa Palmer-Boroski

Luis Felipe Cabrera

Christopher G Kaler

Stephen James Millet

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

James Ernest Johnson

Lance Olson

Richard Douglas Hill

Stefan R Batres

Umesh Madan

John David Doty

Kevin Grealish

Craig Andrew Critchley

Uday Sooryakant Hegde

Vijay Gajjala

Krishnan Srinivasan

Sermet Iskin

Tomasz Janczuk

Geary L Eppley

Matthew Thomas Tavis

David Edwin Levin

Stephen T Swartz

Shy Cohen

Max A Feingold

Richard Dievendorff

David Owen Driver

Siddhartha Puri

Saurab Nog

Stefan H Pharies

Jay L Massena

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Anastasios Kasiolas

Kapil Gupta

Vipul A Modi

Vaithialingam Balayoghan

Evgeny Osovetsky

Mohammad Makarechian

Sowmyanarayanan K Srinivasan

Alexander Martin DeJarnatt

Scott Christopher Seely

Jonathan T Wheeler

Chaitanya Dutt Upadhyay

Michael Thomas Dice

Erin Honeycutt

Yaniv Pessach

Mauro Ottaviani

Alfred M Lee, Iv

Yasser Shohoud

Eugene Shvets

Luis Filipe Cabrera

Vaithiakingam B Balayoghan

Anand Rjagopalan

Mohamed-Hany Essam Ramadan

Serge Sverdlov

Vaithialingam B Balayogan

A computer program file or a sequence of processing steps from an authoring environment of a data processing system is used to generate a graph including nodes representing the processing steps is generated. Unique identifiers (tags) are assigned to the nodes. One or more processing steps are optionally modified while preserving the original identifiers. If an error occurs during execution, error information is saved including the processing step that failed and data records that triggered the failure. The identifier of the failed processing step is attached to the error information. The error information is collected and processed. The collected error information is used to correlate the error to the failed processing step and to data records triggering the error using the identifier of the failed processing step recorded with the error information. The correlated error information indicates cause and location of the error.

Systems and methods for correlating errors to processing steps and data records to facilitate understanding of errors

Various technologies pertaining to construction of a query for execution over a cube are described. Tabular data is presented on a displayed on a display screen, where the tabular data represents at least a portion of a data cube. Input is received with respect to the tabular data, and responsive to the input being received, a query is constructed based upon the input. The query is executed over the data cube, resulting in provisioning of a new table.

Constructing queries for execution over multi-dimensional data structures

An automatic caching system is described herein that automatically determines user-relevant points at which to incrementally cache expensive to obtain data, resulting in faster computation of dependent results. The system can intelligently choose between caching data locally and pushing computation to a remote location collocated with the data, resulting in faster computation of results. The automatic caching system uses stable keys to uniquely refer to programmatic identifiers. The system annotates programs before execution with additional code that utilizes the keys to associate and cache intermediate programmatic results. The system can maintain the cache in a separate process or even on a separate machine to allow cached results to outlive program execution and allow subsequent execution to utilize previously computed results. Cost estimations are performed in order to choose whether utilizing cached values or remote execution would result in a faster computation of a result.

Automatic caching of partial results while editing software

A dynamic, lazy type system is provided for a dynamic, lazy programming language. Consequently, programs can benefit from runtime flexibility and lightweight notation in combination with benefits afforded by a substantial type system.

Dynamic lazy type system

Encoding and/or decoding of messages. On the encoding end, a composite encoder encodes message from an internal format that is used by internal system components into an external format. However, the composite encoder may encode the outgoing messages into different external formats on a per-message basis. For incoming message, a composite decoder decodes incoming messages from any one of a plurality of external formats into the internal format also on a per-message basis. A per-message report mechanism permits internal system components and the encoding/decoding components to communicate information regarding the encoding or decoding on a per message basis. XML messages can be converted automatically into Binary messages.

Conversion of hierarchical infoset type data to binary data

Reader and writer XML processing APIs may process XML documents without blocking a thread by initiating any potential I/O necessary prior to reading from or writing to the XML processing API and by providing a callback which may be notified when the I/O, if any, is complete. The XML processing API may be able to simultaneously process multiple XML documents in various formats and sizes.

Efficient, non-blocking mechanism for incrementally processing arbitrary sized XML documents

The present invention extends to using Simple Object Access Protocol ('SOAP') to exchange typed objects, such as, for example, parameters for invoking methods. A computer system accesses typed object parameters corresponding to a typed object. The typed object is annotated with one or more message contract attributes of a message contract model defining a mapping between typed object parameters and corresponding SOAP elements. The computer system utilizes the message contract attributes to map the typed object parameters into a SOAP element and inserts the SOAP element into a SOAP envelope. A receiving computer system accessing the SOAP element and utilizes the message contract attributes to map the SOAP element back into the typed object parameters.

Flexibly transferring typed application data

The described method and system synchronizes source code with byproducts or artifacts of an application creation process. In one embodiment, a generation tool may be used to produce source code header files based on a design specification, where the source code header files are compiled with a current version of source code. Compilation errors may direct a developer to modify either the specification or the source code to eliminate the errors. The described method and system may be integrated into a development platform that is adapted to direct the user to perform particular revisions or updates to bring the source code in line with the artifacts.

Metadata driven API development

Embodiments described herein provide for an overall object mode that allows for a single message object to represent multiple messaging formats. A general message object is populated with fields for multiple available messaging formats, which can be appropriately filled with information with fields for both versions 1.1 and 1.2. Depending on which version is being used or desired, the appropriate fields can be populated when creating an instance of the message object. The other fields that do not correspond to that version, however, are left blank.

Message object model

Embodiments described herein provide a user with the ability to vary the encoding of a message object rather than being bound to a specific one, e.g., the text encoding for SOAP messaging. Accordingly, a message encoding factory is provided that is responsible for mapping a message object (e.g., SOAP Infoset) into raw octets suitable for wire transmission. By encapsulating the notion of a message encoder factory abstractly, embodiments allow users to vary the encoding of an Infoset without varying the programming model (or any other aspect of the system that uses message). In other words, embodiments herein separate the transport (e.g., TCP, HTTP, etc.) from the encoding, which allows users to use any number of encoding mechanisms&#x2014;even their own proprietary ones.

Varying of message encoding

The transformation of data between binary data and hierarchical data, such as might be processed by an Infoset Processor. When data is received from a network in binary format, the transformation module transforms the binary data into a hierarchical data representation of the binary data, and then provides the transformed data to message processors (e.g., Infoset processors) that understand the hierarchical schema. The transformation module may also transform hierarchical data into binary data for transmission on a network.

Normalization of binary data

A conversion method for converting numeric multi-dimensional database members to textual representations may be provided. The conversion may allow textual representations for the numeric dimension members to be sorted and converted back into numeric representations with accuracy. All numeric and date data may be transformed during conversion, such that the textual representation of the numeric and date data is properly sorted as a text string, in the same order as it would be sorted as a number. Accurate reverse-conversion (i.e., from textual representation to numeric representation) may also be provided. The reverse-conversion may include converting into text, information that may be necessary to support a precision required by the relevant convention of the numeric representation and a convention for determining the data type of the textual representations of values. The textual representation may be configured to sort by value independent of the numeric data-types.

Converting numeric values to strings for optimized database storage

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Michael James Coulson