Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Weibing Zhan

Greg D Schechter

Donald D Karlov

Serge Smirnov

Michael John Hillberg

Sam J George

Mark A Alcazar

Gurpratap Virdi

Wenbo Zhang

Sundaram Ramani

Eldar Azerovich Musayev

Gilles Khouzam

Federico Schliemann

Michael R Harsh

David P Relyea

Lauren B Lavoie

Akshay Johar

John Gossman

Lawrence Wayne Olson

Ashish S Shetty

Described is a technology by which code, such as an untrusted web application hosted in a browser, provides content through an interface for playback by an application environment, such as an application environment running in a browser plug-in. Content may be in the form of elementary video, audio and/or script streams. The content is in a container that is unpackaged by the application code, whereby the content may be packaged in any format that the application understands, and/or or come from any source from which the application can download the container. An application environment component such as a platform-level media element receives information from an application that informs the application environment that the application is to provide media stream data for playback. The application environment requests media stream data (e.g., samples) from the application, receives them as processed by the application, and provides the requested media stream data for playback.

Media streams from containers processed by hosted code

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that allow a user interface in a managed runtime environment to display content from two or more different partitioned process spaces. A software application having a user interface operates a managed runtime environment. A window handle allows a user interface of the application to display content from different partitioned process spaces at a same time. Information from the partitioned process spaces can be integrated within the user interface while preserving a level of isolation between the partitioned process spaces. This is accomplished by providing a first portion of a content container for the user interface with a host control that contains the window handle and resides in a first partitioned process space of a main window. A second portion of the content container is provided with a source control that provides the window handle and resides in a second partitioned process space.

Isolating, managing and communicating with user interface elements

A resource loader provides resource lookup and redirection to computer software applications. The resource loader allows applications to be written using relative Uniform Resource Identifier ('URI') rather than hard-coded URI that includes a protocol identified at the beginning of the URI and further indicates the location of the resource in a fully qualified path. During execution, applications may initiate execution of the resource loader that in turn locates and returns the resource to the application. In this way, applications may be written that are agnostic as to how their resources are packaged. That is, a change of resource packaging does not necessitate a re-write of the application source code. In some cases, the resource loader may be accessed by one or more applications through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the resource loader. The applications may also pass a resource identifier for the desired resource to the resource loader.

Resource loader for applications that utilize relative uniform resource identifiers

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