Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sundeep Bhatia

Shankar Vaidyanathan

Philip Lucido

Automatic parameter help is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises an editor to provide for developing source code for a computer program, where the source code includes an identifier; and an automatic help module invoked upon a predetermined event by the editor. The automatic help module is operative to display reference information associated with the identifier.

Automated help system for reference information

Dynamic parsing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an editor and a dynamic parser. The editor provides for developing of source code for a computer program. The dynamic parser parses the source code as the source is developed within the editor during predetermined times (for example, in one embodiment, every second).

Dynamic parsing

Automatic statement completion is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes an editor to provide for developing source code for a computer program, and a database containing information on entities in the source code. The system also includes a completion module invoked by the editor upon the occurrence of a predetermined event and operative to display a set of valid entities in response to a pre-determined event.

Automatic statement completion

Indexing and searching across multiple sorted arrays. In one embodiment, a method. First, for a plurality of arrays, each array having a plurality of elements indexable by a pointer for the array, finding a smallest element of a set of elements comprising the element of each array at the pointer for the array. Second, increasing the pointer for the array in which the smallest element was found. Third, repeating until a desired number of smallest elements is found.

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