Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Thomas Gersten

Xin Tong

Tommer Leyvand

Xiang Cao

Feng Xu

Rolando Jimenez Salgado

Takaaki Shiratori

Todd J Abel

David Koronthaly

Lawrence M Sanchez

Rolando Jimenez-Salgado

Maarten Mullender

Howard Morrison Crow, Iii

Bradley Stevenson

Jared R Parker

Thomas Mechelke

Brad Stevenson

An optical flow of depth video of a depth camera imaging a human subject is recognized. An energy field created by motion of the human subject is generated as a function of the optical flow and specified rules of a physical simulation of the virtual environment. The energy field is mapped to a virtual position in the virtual environment. A property of a virtual object in the virtual environment is adjusted based on a plurality of energy elements of the energy field in response to the virtual object interacting with the virtual position of the energy field.

Motion control of a virtual environment

The architecture provides development tools for the occasional developer to build a substantial portion of an application interface for accessing and interacting with actual data. The lack in knowledge of the occasional developer to complete the project is then supplemented by a development service provider such that experienced developers complete the interface and integrate the interface into the application environment so the occasional developer can use the application to access data for which the interface was developed. The architecture provides tools that are understandable for building in a guided way the framework and the user experience for the application, and then passes on the more complex pieces to IT because coding may be needed or a model should be generated that is scalable for a large number of users, for example. IT then completes the development process and integrates the final solution into the application environment.

Upgrading simple applications to full scale solutions

Technologies are described herein for deploying a data only solution package separate from custom code. In this way, lifecycles of the data only solution package and the custom code can be separately controlled. In an illustrative implementation, the data only solution package is received at a computer. A data specification is installed at the computer through the data only solution package. The data specification may specify a location of an external system storing external data. A data subscription may also be installed at the computer through the data only solution package. The data subscription may include queries for retrieving the external data from the external system and frequency information specifying a frequency at which to retrieve the external data. The external data is retrieved from the external system utilizing the location information, the queries, and the frequency information. A data cache at the computer is populated with the external data.

Data only solution package

User interfaces are defined by metadata for use with productivity suite applications in a wrapped window, a task pain, or some other suitable representation. Data can be bound to a data source in a one-way format such that changes from the data source propagate to property fields in the UI form. Data can also be bound to a data source in a two-way format such that changes from the property field of the UI propagate back to the data source. The data source can be a local cache such as for synchronization between a productivity suite application and a line of business (LOB) application (e.g., CRM applications). A rendering engine is arranged to process the UI and data bindings such that custom event handlers are defined in a code behind assembly format. Productivity suite items are accessible from the code behind assembly through a series of item interfaces.

Interfaces for a productivity suite application and a hosted user interface

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