Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Neeraj Wadhwa

Wei Zeng

Martyn S Lovell

Mahesh Prakriya

Elliot H Omiya

Lawrence William Osterman

Stephen C Rowe

Robert Albert Wlodarczyk

Tassaduq Basu

Michael Aksionkin

Shakeel Solkar

Harold L Pierson, Iii

Jerry Jay Dunietz

Ales Holecek

Brent Rector

Harold Pierson

Lawrence W Osterman

Information about the operating system application programming interfaces is stored in a known format in a known location. This information fully describes the APIs exposed by the operating system and is stored in API metadata files. A language compiler or interpreter uses this API information to build a natural and familiar representation of the native system API in the target language. The language compiler or interpreter can read the API information at compile time and/or runtime. The metadata is used to allow an application to refer to named elements in the API. Projections are built that use the metadata to map named elements in the API to named elements in the target language, and to define wrappers that marshal data of those elements between the target representation and the native operating system representation.

Projecting native application programming interfaces of an operating system into other programming languages

Various embodiments provide an ability to abstract type resolution between multiple type systems. At least one type can be described in one or more programmatically accessible file(s). In some embodiments, an application using a different type system can programmatically access and resolve a type of the at least one type system without knowledge of a location of where a description of the type resides. Alternately or additionally, type descriptions contained in the one or more programmatically accessible file(s) can be analyzed and restructured into one or more new programmatically accessible file(s) based, at least in part, upon the type descriptions.

Flexible metadata composition

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