Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ryan Heaney

Kyle Matthew Von Haden

Christopher D Edwards

Jonathan D Esterly

March Rogers

Mark E Pearson

Jonathan Seth Kaufthal

Matthew D Wood

Tianyu Xie

Carlo Rivera

Shawn Thomas Sullivan

Nathan Cole Owen

Neculai Blendea

Kyle Von Haden

Peter Anthony Nobel

Adrian Roy Padua

Disclosed are embodiments for reducing processing requirements in complex build environments. Complex build environments frequently perform multiple builds per day, in some cases, multiple builds are occurring in parallel. Some of these builds and some fail. Moreover, a definition of success or failure of a build can vary across individual engineers or teams of engineers. In a complex build environment that is rapidly generating multiple build results simultaneously, identifying which builds are appropriate for use can be difficult. Many teams solve this problem by increasing a frequency of builds to rapidly detect any problems with documents recently checked into a document repository. However, this relatively high frequency of builds can impose large processing and/or cost burdens on an organization. By providing sophisticated methods of extracting validation information from existing builds, the disclosed embodiments reduce processing requirements and improved efficiency of enterprise build environments.

Reduced processing loads via selective validation specifications

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating application forensics. In least one implementation, the identity of a user associated with an attempt to access an application program that resides in a development environment is determined. Information is generated with which to encode the identity of the user in a various views of the application program rendered in a runtime environment. A reply to the attempt is communicated that includes the information and at least a portion of the application program.

Application forensics

A system is provided in which two sets of content are cached in a corresponding two caches&#x2014;a current cache and a next cache. A client renders content in the current cache and uses the next cache to define the expiration for the content in the current cache as well as provide the replacement content when the current content expires. When a client application renders the content in the current cache, the application checks whether the expiration for the current cache has been reached according to the expiration defined by the content in the next cache (which is not being rendered). If the expiration has been reached, the content in the next cache is moved to the current cache and rendered. New content can then be downloaded to fill the next cache and define the expiration for the content formerly in the next cache but now in the current cache.

Replacement time based caching for providing server-hosted content

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