Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Workman Nydegger

Nikhil Kothari

Simon Calvert

Michael James Harder

Andres Sanabria

Bertrand Le Roy

Scott David Guthrie

Susan M Warren

Eilon J Lipton

Stefan Schackow

Matthew E Gibbs

David S Ebbo

Erik B Olson

Robert Michael Howard

Andrew Cheng-min Lin

Andrew C Lin

Erik B Christensen

Stephen James Millet

Israel Hilerio

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Keith W Ballinger

Brian Keith Pepin

Mark T Anders

Anthony J Moore

Yann Christensen

Fabio A Yeon

Adam Wade Smith

Manu Vasandani

Suzanne Maurine Cook

Mark A Boulter

Jayanth V Rajan

Jonathan C Hawkins

Paul Maybee

Shanku Shivabrata Niyogi

Susan Chory

Michael R Harsh

Ting-Hao Yang

Bradley D Millington

Anders Hejlsberg

Gopala Krishna R Kakivaya

Yan Valerie Leshinsky

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Michael M Magruder

Raja Krishnaswamy

David Bau

Brian LaMacchia

Gregory Darrell Fee

Lance Olson

Henry L Sanders

Polita Paulus

Julie D Bennett

James S Miller

Travis Muhlestein

Sean Edwin Trowbridge

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Seth Mitchell Demsey

Luca Bolognese

Pablo Castro

Brian M Grunkemeyer

Gregory Scott Lindhorst

Shawn Patrick Burke

Christopher L Anderson

Yung-Shin Lin

Loren Kohnfelder

Dmitry Robsman

Jun Fang

Jayaram N M Nanduri

Jeffrey M Cooperstein

James H Hogg

Nicholas M Kramer

Anson Michael Horton

Craig T Sinclair

Corina Eva Feuerstein

David S Mortenson

Caleb L Doise

Alan Geoffrey Boshier

Shajan Dasan

Chad W Royal

Paul Yuknewicz

Manish S Prabhu

Radu Rares Palanca

Joseph L Roxe

Antoine Cote

Bulusu Krishna Mohan

John I McConnell

Tarun Anand

Mark W Fussell

Ramasamy Krishnaswamy

Sreeram Nivarthi

Hany E Ramadan

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Scott Kirk Imig

Joe Dennis Long

Omri Gazitt

Marcelo R Uemura

Daniel Takacs

Nithyalakshmi Sampathkumar

Jeffrey Thomas Chrisope

Neetu Rajpal

Daniel Dedu-Constantin

Some embodiments are directed to controlling interactions between a host software program and a computer system by providing a managed execution environment running within the host software program. In one embodiment, a computer system integrates a managed execution environment within a host software program. The computer system uses the managed execution environment to interact with one or more features of the host software program. The managed execution environment includes interface controls configured to interface between the computer system and the host software program. The compute system alters one or more of the various software program features based on code that is identified in downloaded content.

Managed execution environment for software application interfacing

Concepts and technologies are described herein for multi-mode text input. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, content is received. The content can include one or more input indicators. The input indicators can indicate that user input can be used in conjunction with consumption or use of the content. The application is configured to analyze the content to determine context associated with the content and/or the client device executing the application. The application also is configured to determine, based upon the content and/or the contextual information, which input device to use to obtain input associated with use or consumption of the content. Input captured with the input device can be converted to text and used during use or consumption of the content.

Multi-mode text input

Embodiments are directed to dynamically tuning search result rankings to control how the search results are presented in a user interface and to dynamically updating search result rankings based on tuning inputs. In one scenario, a computer system receives search results with associated search result attributes. The search results are displayed within a user interface according to each search result's determined ranking. The computer system then receives a tuning input at the user interface. The tuning input indicates that a search result ranking model is to be adjusted for various specified search result attributes. Moreover, the search result ranking model determines how each search result is ranked. The computer system then dynamically updates the displayed search results as the search result ranking model is tuned for the specified search result attributes. The dynamic updating includes repositioning, adding and removing search results according to the determined ranking for each search result.

Real-time search tuning

Systems and methods that implement interactivity as part of a workflow itself. Data is passed in and out of the workflow to form an interactive workflow, via employing an interactive activity component. Such interactive activity component models suspension points within a workflow definition, wherein user input and associated interaction can be supplied to the workflow during various interactivity breaks that request user input. Such an arrangement enables a controlled/synchronous data exchange between the workflow and a host application associated therewith.

Modeling user input and interaction in workflow based applications

A data template that is used to generate arbitrary data of a user interface element that is part of the hierarchy of user interface elements used to render a user interface. The data template is used to generate the arbitrary data of the user interface element, even though that component is not also a user interface element. This contrast with the use of a user interface template which is used to generate the user interface element itself. This permits for greater control in defining the layout, content, and/or the look and feel of portions of the user interface element.

Data templates in user interface elements

System and methods for asynchronous processing within a web page lifecycle, enabling web page developers to integrate asynchronous work within the web page implementation that can store state inside the page and is applied to requests to the particular page. Handlers initiate event-based or task-based asynchronous operations without keeping a dedicated thread while waiting for a response. The thread is returned to a pool of available threads upon initiation of the process. Results are received on other threads and provided to the page before rendering. Timeout errors are also provided, if a particular result is not received within specified period. The events are delivered in a serial manner so that the page developer uses request instance data without explicit synchronization. This makes a high-scale, asynchronous processing model less complex and more accessible to developers accustomed to web scripting, which is traditionally synchronous.

System and method for asynchronous processing in page lifecycle

An intra Web-page navigation history mechanism allows history points to be tracked even for state transitions within the same Web page. A Web page may be subjected to a number of different state changes as the Web application executes. Along the way, a number of the state changes may be tracked as history points. When a history point is created, associated state is also recorded. When the history point is again navigated to, a navigation event may be raised along with the associated state for the history point. Various components (whether on the server or client) may listen to that event and reconstruct their respective states by using selective portions of the reconstruction state.

Managing navigation history for intra-page state transitions

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that allow for repurposing content of a source web site for an external web site. The developer uses a programming feature to create a web page with a portion of content suitable for use in the form of a gadget control on an external web site. The developer sets up the portion of the web page for repurposing as the gadget control. When a request is received from the source web site to access the web page, the web page is displayed along with the displayable portion of content in the normal fashion. When a request is received from the external web site to access the portion of content in the form of the gadget control, the portion of content is provided to the external web site for use in the gadget control.

Cross domain presence of web user interface and logic

The described systems and methods are directed at defining web content navigation. The disclosed technique enables the development of web content for a scenario without having to create every navigational control that is needed to manage the flow through the web content in the scenario or to write non-declarative server-side logic to control navigation. This method determines a declaration in a source file for a web page. The declaration is associated with an object. The method determines the views associated with the object where each of the views includes a user-interface. A flow for navigating through the views is determined. The views are rendered in accordance with the navigational flow.

Systems and methods for defining web content navigation

In a distributed computing system containing multiple entities such as servers and clients, an object passed between the entities is attached with metadata identifying the type of the object and/or types and values of properties associated with the object. Before the object is passed to an entity in the distributed computing system, the object may be serialized into a data format that the receiving entity can understand.

Preservation of type information between a client and a server

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