Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Simeon John Cran

Clemens Alden Szyperski

Antony S Williams

Brad Olenick

Siddharth Jayadevan

Jeffrey E Stall

Balasubramanian Shyamsundar

Christopher N Raubacher

Minmin Gong

William Emeric Aitken

Simon David Kent

Arshad F Ahmad

Kelly Marie Renner

Christopher Donald Hackmann

Geoffrey Tyler Trousdale

Vladimir Nedkov Hristov

Nick Alexander Eubanks

A scene may be rendered as objects that are lit by various light sources. A scene designer may arrange the scene to create particular lighting effects when viewed from an initial perspective, such as gloss, translucency, and iridescence, and may choose lighting effects to create a desired aesthetic tone and/or highlighting within the scene. However, rendering the scene from a different perspective may alter the lighting effects (e.g., losing or misplacing desired lighting effects, and/or creating new and undesirable lighting effects, such as glare). Instead, when the scene is rendered from the initial perspective, the lighting effects created therein may be stored with the scene representation of the scene. A second rendering of the scene from a different perspective may reapply the stored lighting effects to the lit objects, thereby maintaining the lighting effects and the intent of the designer in the presentation of the scene from a different perspective.

Preserving scene lighting effects across viewing perspectives

Embodiments are directed to dynamically building software applications and dynamically updating software applications based on changed data values. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an indication that a software application is to be initiated. The computer system also receives an application description including tags describing software objects that are to be included in the software application, automatically maps portions of the application description identified by the tags to software objects using reflection, where the reflecting includes accessing properties associated with the software objects, and automatically binds properties of the software objects to the portions of the application description based declarative rules included in the software object properties associated with the software object.

Generic XAD processing model

Methods, systems and computer products are provided for partitioning software application components into separate domains called concurrency domains. Computationally expensive, slow or long-running methods may be deployed into such domains, thus keeping the associated application more responsive to the end user. According to one aspect of the invention, a given concurrency domain is a partition of runtime objects for providing synchronization and thread isolation within the partition and for providing concurrency with other such partitions in a data-driven dynamically composed and reconfigured application.

Multithreading with concurrency domains

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Simeon John Cran