Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Puravkumar B Saraiya

Stephen Michael Danton

Aditya G Bhandarkar

Balasubramanian Shyamsundar

Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian

Matthew R Winkler

Alexander Martin DeJarnatt

Pravin R Indurkar

Catherine Elizabeth Dumas

Dhama Shukla

Embodiments are directed to providing an application model to deploy and manage composite applications and to providing model-driven software coding assistance. In an embodiment, a computer system instantiates an application design interface that is configured to display composite application components and relationships between the components. Each component includes information specifying how communication is to be conducted with the component. The computer system accesses an application manifest that includes the components and component relationships of the application. The computer system displays the composite application's components and component relationships in the instantiated visual application design interface according to the application manifest.

Platform for distributed applications

A viewer may be used to navigate through diagrammatic views of hierarchically structured documents. Expansion and collapse controls may be used to show or hide details regarding a particular node in the hierarchy. Furthermore breadcrumb navigation may be employed to show and hide details regarding the ancestral chain for a particular node in the hierarchy.

Breadcrumb navigation through heirarchical structures

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Puravkumar B Saraiya