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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2000
Martyn S. Lovell, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher G. Kaler, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter W. Wilson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Martyn S. Lovell, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher G. Kaler, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter W. Wilson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In an integrated development environment, there is a tight coupling between a design surface providing a visual representation of the various physical and logical entities in a software model and the underlying code structures that support the entities. The model can include varying combinations of a component model, a high level design whiteboard, or a physical model. Every object defined within the design surface is capable of being mapped directly to an underlying code structure. The model is a graphical representation of the actual code, thus providing two way updating, i.e., the model is updated when the programmer changes the code and vice versa.