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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2005
Ralph Lipe, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Robert L. Chambers, Sammamish, WA (US);
Edward W. Connell, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhijit Sarkar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ralph Lipe, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Robert L. Chambers, Sammamish, WA (US);
Edward W. Connell, Redmond, WA (US);
Abhijit Sarkar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Micosoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and computer-readable medium for searching for programming objects on a computer system. Under one aspect of the invention, optional search attributes are used to order a list of references to found programming objects. Under a second aspect of the invention, object attributes that are stored outside of a static attribute storage area are inspected during the search for programming objects.