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Susan M Warren

Scott David Guthrie

Nikhil Kothari

Anthony J Moore

Andrew C Lin

Erik B Christensen

Stephen James Millet

David S Ebbo

Stefan Harrington Pharies

Keith W Ballinger

Mark T Anders

Erik B Olson

Yann Christensen

Fabio A Yeon

Robert Michael Howard

Adam Wade Smith

Manu Vasandani

Suzanne Maurine Cook

Mark A Boulter

Jayanth V Rajan

Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Sean P Nolan

Stephen Frederick Potter

Francisco Manuel Galanes

Steven Alfred Isaac

James D Jacoby

Vikram Bhambri

Matthew D Hempey

Raj Biyani

Anders Hejlsberg

Gopala Krishna R Kakivaya

Yan Valerie Leshinsky

Christopher Wellington Brumme

Giovanni Moises Della-Libera

Michael M Magruder

Raja Krishnaswamy

David Bau

Brian LaMacchia

Gregory Darrell Fee

Lance Olson

Henry L Sanders

Julie D Bennett

James S Miller

Travis Muhlestein

Sean Edwin Trowbridge

Jonathan C Hawkins

Krzysztof J Cwalina

Seth Mitchell Demsey

Luca Bolognese

Brian M Grunkemeyer

Christopher L Anderson

Shawn Patrick Burke

Yung-Shin Lin

Loren Kohnfelder

Brian Keith Pepin

Jun Fang

Jeffrey M Cooperstein

James H Hogg

Corina Eva Feuerstein

Nicholas M Kramer

Craig T Sinclair

Renaud Julien Lecoeuche

David S Mortenson

Shajan Dasan

Caleb L Doise

Alan Geoffrey Boshier

Chad W Royal

Manish S Prabhu

Radu Rares Palanca

John I McConnell

Mark W Fussell

Tarun Anand

Joseph L Roxe

Jesus Ruiz-Scougall

Sreeram Nivarthi

Omri Gazitt

Joe Dennis Long

Ramasamy Krishnaswamy

Hany E Ramadan

Nithyalakshmi Sampathkumar

Daniel Takacs

Daniel Dedu-Constantin

Neetu Rajpal

Blaine J Dockter

William A Adams

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Subhag P Oak

Thomas L Button

Deirdre L Walsh

Paul C Sausville

Web server controls are provided for generating client side markups with recognition and/or audible prompting. Three approaches are disclosed for implementation of the controls.

Web server controls for web enabled recognition and/or audible prompting

A multi-merchant purchasing system is configured to identify downloadable products selected by a user for purchase. The identified downloadable products are offered by multiple merchants. The multi-merchant purchasing system enables the user to purchase all of the downloadable products in a single transaction. Specifically, the multi-merchant purchasing system determines payment information associated with the user and, with minimum user-interaction, sends the payment information to applications associated with the merchants for processing. The multi-merchant purchasing system may also be configured to receive purchase information from the merchant applications and maintains the purchase information for the user in a locker. The multi-merchant purchasing system may further be configured to automatically download and install the purchased product onto the user's computing device through a software assistant. To ensure privacy and security, the multi-merchant purchasing system may include a credit card quarantine module to secure credit card data by encoding and multiple levels of encryptions. The multi-merchant purchasing system may be further configured to accept a request to collect extended user data related to the user on behalf of merchants and return the collected extended user data to the merchants.

Extended data collection for multi-merchant purchasing environment for downloadable products

Code builders can be used to generate code segments that are customized in response to user input. An integrated development environment provides links to one or more code builders that are configured for developing specific types of code. Once a code builder is selected or dragged and dropped on a code editor, a code builder interface is launched that prompts the user for input that will be applied to a document object model describing the basic attributes of the code segment. The code builder then generates the customized code and inserts it into a desired location within the integrated development environment.

Code builders

An application program interface (API) provides a set of functions for application developers who build Web applications on Microsoft Corporation's .NET&#x2122; platform.

Application program interface for network software platform

Computing system and method for allowing plurality of applications written in different programming languages to communicate and request resources or services via a common language runtime layer

A multi-merchant purchasing system is configured to identify downloadable products selected by a user for purchase. The identified downloadable products are offered by multiple merchants. The multi-merchant purchasing system enables the user to purchase all of the downloadable products in a single transaction. Specifically, the multi-merchant purchasing system determines payment information associated with the user and, with minimum user-interaction, sends the payment information to applications associated with the merchants for processing. The multi-merchant purchasing system may also be configured to receive purchase information from the merchant applications and maintains the purchase information for the user in a locker. The multi-merchant purchasing system may further be configured to automatically download and install the purchased product onto the user's computing device through a software assistant. To ensure privacy and security, the multi-merchant purchasing system may include a credit card quarantine module to secure credit card data by encoding and multiple levels of encryptions.

Payment information security for multi-merchant purchasing environment for downloadable products

Code and content of a program can be logically separated for display and editing within an integrated development environment. The code and content are separated by the application of a separation algorithm that extracts the code and content into discrete buffers. A user can then designate what portions of the program they wish to view, including a code only view, a content only view, a design view, or a consolidated content and code view. While in any of the foregoing views, the program can be edited with tools and components provided by the integrated development environment. Thereafter, the logically separated portions of the program can be merged back together into a single program file.

Logical separation of code and content

Web control validation may be defined using one or more declarations that are included in an ASP+ file by the web page author. The declarations specify server-side objects that validate the input data received in the web page and provide error handling in the event of a validation failure error. Validation declaration parameters specify the validation criteria against which the input data is validated. Example validation operations involve regular expressions, required fields, data comparison, range comparison and custom validation. Validation parameters can also specify either server-side validation or client-side validation, depending on the client browser's capabilities. In a server-side scenario, a server-side validation object processes the input data received in an HTTP request from the client. In a client-side scenario, a server-side validation object renders the appropriate client-side code to validate the input data without a round trip between the client and the server.

Web controls validation

Access to remotely located components for developing programs is provided with an interface that is launched from directly within an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The interface is configured to access one or more desired component repositories through a web service. A programmer can use the interface to query the component repositories for one or more desired components. The interface can also provide additional information that is known about the identified components, as obtained from the web service hosting the component repositories. Once the one or more desired components are identified, the interface can also be used to download and install the components directly into the component toolboxes of the IDE for immediate use. The components may include various files that are contained in a modified dynamic loadable library (DLL) file format or another format that allows the files to be authenticated.

Integrated development environment access to remotely located components

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is configured with an online community interface for accessing online community resources, such as contacts and information, directly through the Internet or other networks. The online community  interface displays icons and other selectable objects that are associated with contacts or webpages. Upon selecting an object associated with a contact, an email or instant messaging window is launched that enables communication with the one or more contacts. Upon selecting an object associated with a webpage, a browser is launched that accesses and displays the webpage. The online community interface also enables an IDE element, such as a development tool or program snippet to be copied from the IDE and sent to a desired contact through the IDE interface.

Integrating online community and program development environments

An application program interface includes a first class to provide information regarding a current HTTP request. The application program interface also includes a second class to manage HTTP output to a client and an object to provide access to server-side utilities and processes. Particular application program interfaces include additional classes to manipulate cookies, handle file transfers, provide exception information, or control operation of an output cache.

Application program interface that enables communication for a network software platform

Web control validation may be defined using one or more declarations that are included in an ASP+ file by the web page author. The declarations specify server-side objects that validate the input data received in the web page and provide error handling in the event of a validation failure error. Validation declaration parameters specify the validation criteria against which the input data is validated. Example validation operations involve regular expressions, required fields, data comparison, range comparison and custom validation. Validation parameters can also specify- either server-side validation or client-side validation, depending on the client browser's capabilities. In a server-side scenario, a server-side validation object processes the input data received in an HTTP request from the client. In a client-side scenario, a server-side validation object renders the appropriate client-side code to validate the input data without a round trip between the client and the server.

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