Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Christopher P Stine

Soren Francker

Jesper K Olsen

Nicholas James Thomson

Robert F Blanch

Samir B Manjure

Gregory Scott Greenaae

Hans Jørgen Grøn

Heriberto Coll

Chandrudu Pokala

Donna Daem

Ingibjorg Numadottir

Brett M Davis

Guner Akturk

Jørn Lindhard Mortensen

The described implementations relate to installation of customized applications. One technique obtains a software application generated by a producer. The technique identifies customizations made by a customizer to the software application that are desired by a customer. The technique further installs the software application and the customizations on the customer's computer in a single operation.

Installation of customized applications

A program interface which provides access from a business management application to an accounting application to share account information. As described in illustrative embodiments, the system includes an interface module to instantiate and invoke an interface from the business management application to generate an accounting record from an opportunity or prospect record in the business management application. Thus, the accounting record is generated through the interface from the business management application to eliminate the need for duplicate data entry in the accounting application.

Program interface for a business management application and an accounting application

A method and system for configuring an instance of a business information application program based on data exported from an instance of the application program is provided. Each instance of the application program has a database storing an organizations' business data. Template providers desiring to provide a template containing configuration and instance data to organizations using the application program may use the application program to set up configuration and instance data for a particular type of organization. Once the database is populated with configuration and instance data, the template provider can use an export function to export the configuration and instance data to a template file. The template file is then provided to an organization that wants to initialize its database based on the template. The organization uses an import function to import configuration and instance data from the template into the organization's database.

Exporting and importing business templates

Data may be provided in a language chosen by a user. A data record may be stored in a database using symbols to represent data. These symbols may be converted into various languages. A resource file for a given language defines a correspondence between the symbols in the record and the words in that language. A user indicates a choice of language in which to receive data. The user's choice is stored in the database, and conversion information from the resource file for the user's chosen language is copied to the database. When a program connects to a database and requests data records, the user's language choice is retrieved from the data, and the conversion information stored in the database is used to convert the data records into the chosen language. The requested data is then provided to the application in the user's chosen language.

Providing data based on language choice

A system for supporting version management is provided. The system includes a first application having a plurality of versions. Each of the plurality of versions is associated with a separate a version-specific assembly. A loader is configured to load one of the version-specific assemblies, the assembly then being utilized as a basis for deriving an object from a database associated with the first application. The object is provided to a second application, typically in response to a corresponding request.

Application loader for support of version management

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