Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Neil W Konzen

Chee Heng Chew

Christopher J Guzak

Ian Michael Ellison-Taylor

George H Pitt, Iii

Ron Oded Gery

Stuart T Laney

David J D'Souza

David Neal Weise

An operating system includes APIs developed in part to support recent innovations in computer hardware and in part to provide enhanced services to application programs. Among their other features, these APIs provide access to operating system functionality in a manner that is comprehensive, efficient, usable, extendible and, in some cases, reusable.

Application programming interface techniques for accessing operating system resources

Method and system for accessing operating system resources

New varieties of child window controls are provided as system resources that application programs may exploit. The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a dynamic link library (DLL) for implementing the new child window controls as part of an operating system. The new child window controls include a header bar control for providing header bars in application programs. The new controls also include a hot key control that allows a user to view and edit hot key combinations. The new controls further include a tab control for establishing tabs that differentiate amongst pages in user interfaces provided by application programs. An image list data type is defined and functions are provided for manipulating the image list data type. Image lists include multiple like-sized images that are stored efficiently in a single bitmap.

System provided child window controls

A method and system for operating a server with a plurality of clients is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the server is designed to provide a service to an activated client. The service provided is comprised of both common steps and a behavior group. The behavior group includes alternative behaviors, each of which corresponds to a series of steps that are only a portion of the steps designed to be executed when the service is requested by a single group of clients. The common steps are steps designed to be executed for all of the clients. An indicium is associated with the activated client. The indicium indicates which of the alternative behaviors is to be provided to the activated client. When the activated client requests the service from the server, the indicium associated with the activated client is checked. The series of steps corresponding to the alternative behavior indicated by the checked indicium are then executed. The common steps are also executed.

Method and system for specifying alternate behavior of a software system

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Neil W Konzen