Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Patrick Dengler

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Paul Stanley Kuklinski, Jr

Anders Hejlsberg

John Peter Shewchuk

Bradford H Lovering

Robert A Brigham

Erik B Christensen

Randy S Kimmerly

Namendra Kumar

Steven J Kruy

Lawrence M Sanchez

Ricard Roma I Dalfó

Jagdish Singh

Satish Kumar Chittamuru

Sripriya P Vasudevan

Eray Aydin

Goksel Genc

Zoltan Pekic

Oleg G Lvovitch

Sai Shankar

Lawrence Michael Sanchez, Ii

Arvind Kumar Krishnan

Rachna Vargiya

William W Ramos

Julia Zhenglei Liuson

Steve Kruy

Bill Ramos

Julia Zhenglei Pan

Nabarun Mondal

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a programming model for modular development. A definition feature is provided that allows a definition to be specified for a particular method that is part of an application. A production feature allows a functionality implementation to be specified for the particular method separately from the definition. A consumption feature allows a method call to be made indirectly to the functionality implementation of the particular method by referencing the definition of the particular method from a consuming method. The consuming method has no awareness of the functionality implementation for the particular method. An analysis process inspects components containing indirect associations between these consumers and producers of application functionality to generate a graph of direct associations between the consumers and producers without having to actually load the components. A loader process uses the graph of direct associations to run the application.

Programming model for modular development

Metadata is used to create customized user interface (UI) portions for an application. The metadata may be XML-based and can be interpreted and then rendered to implement a customized UI that also supports data binding between data and the UI controls. Once created, the metadata is processed by a rendering engine to display the UI controls. An interpreter may be used to interpret the metadata file before it is sent to the rendering engine. Neither the rendering engine nor the interpreter needs knowledge of the host application and provides support for arbitrary metadata driven UI. The metadata schema may include mechanisms to create custom controls for the UI; programmatically modify the UI controls by providing access to a code-behind assembly as well as support event handling for the UI controls.

Metadata driven user interface

Embodiments provide a software model which allows a user to modify a software program in substantially the same manner as the original programmer or developer. In one embodiment, declarative code and user customizations are isolated from other code and structure of the software program. The isolated customizations can be quickly and efficiently examined to determine whether any changes or other modifications have been made to the software program. Additionally, the isolated changes can be efficiently located and applied when updating or upgrading the software program to persist any customized changes made to the software program.

Isolating declarative code to preserve customizations

A method of tracking data through a multi-tier computing architecture includes initializing a first row pointer of a dataset with data form a database, placing changes to the data in the second row pointer of the dataset, comparing the first and second row pointers, and declaring a state of the data in response to comparing the first and second row pointers. A system for tracking data through a multi-tier architecture includes an initialize module, a change module, a compare module, and a declare module. The initialize module initializes a first row pointer of a dataset with data from a database. The change module places changes to the data in a second row pointer of the dataset. The compare module compares the first and second row pointers. The declare module declares a state of the data in response to comparing the first and second row pointers.

Method and system for programming disconnected data

Database item versioning, such as items like stored procedures found in databases such as Standard Query Language (SQL) databases. In one embodiment, a program such as an editor, a database, a source and a mechanism. An editor program provides for editing a stored procedure. The databases includes the stored procedure. The SCC system stores versions of the stored procedure. The mechanism checks in and checks out the stored procedure to provide for effective versioning thereof.

Database item versioning

The invention provides database item versioning, such as items like stored procedures found in databases such as Standard Query Language (SQL) databases. In one embodiment, the invention includes a program such as an editor, a database, a source code control and a mechanism. An editor program provides for editing a stored procedure. The databases includes the stored procedure. The SCC source code control system stores versions of the stored procedure. The mechanism checks in and checks out the stored procedure to provide for effective versioning thereof of the stored procedure.

A system, method, and article of manufacturer for programming processing operations within a server and more particularly to a system, method, and article of manufacturer for programming processing operations of tracking data through a multi-tier computing architecture. The method includes dragging a graphical representation for a server processing resource from a server explorer module to a visual design surface module to add a processing to a programmable data object being created in the visual design surface module, identifying data schema associated with the server processing resource added to the programmable data object, creating a typed dataset containing the data structures corresponding to the data schema associated with the server processing resource, creating a command adapter to provide data transfer commands within the programmable data object between the programmable data object and the server processing resource, and creating a data transfer connection between the programmable data object and the server processing resource.

Drag and drop stateless data class specification and programming

A method of building a dataset in a computing system includes extracting data meeting a predetermined criteria from at least a first database, filling the dataset with data items, extracting from the first database relationships between the data items meeting the predetermined criteria, and filling the dataset with the relationships. A system for building a dataset in a computing system includes a data extraction module, a data populating module, a relationship extraction module, and a relationship populating module. The data extraction module extracts data meeting a predetermined criteria from at least a first database. The data populating module fills the dataset with data items. The relationship extraction module extracts from the first database relationships between the data items meeting the predetermined criteria. The relationship populating module fills the dataset with the relationships. A dataset contained within memory of a computing system includes a table component for containing data extracted from a database. The dataset also includes a relations component for containing relationships extracted from the database.

Method and system for building a dataset

Data is separated from source. Datasets store tables of data and a graph of the relationships between the tables. The relationship can change at any time. The relationships are described by metadata that describe primary key, foreign key, and lookups, and other relationships between tables. In one embodiment, the tables of data are typed columns of data. The dataset also includes information on the rowstate and differential preservation, therefore, the source does not need to manage states of the data access. Adapters abstract the interface to datasets. More specifically, adapters manage the input/output to the datasets of the tables of data and the relationships. Adapters can be specialized in their purpose, such as an adapter for OLE data or XML data or generalized in their purpose. Furthermore, a composite adapter is specialized for the purpose of interacting with other adapters. Adapters manage the connection to the dataset and the name of the server that hosts the dataset. Data hoisting is implemented, in which the fluid relationship of data is changed in response to current data needs.

Transforming data between first organization in a data store and hierarchical organization in a dataset

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