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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2005
Shannon Pahl, Seattle, WA (US);
Shannon Pahl, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A form pooling system allows efficient management of various forms used by a computer application. The form pooling system provides a close form module and an open form module to manage closing and opening various forms related to the application. The form pooling system significantly reduces form load time for complex forms by not having to re-create a form each time a client requests a form. The form pool may contain various types of previously used modeless forms and manages an upper limit of the number of forms that may be pooled to limit memory overhead. A form used in the form pooling system may be designed in a manner such that the form performs an unbinding operation when it is placed in a form pool and it performs a rebinding operation every time that form is retrieved from the form pool.