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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2009
Eilene Hao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexander Malck, Seattle, WA (US);
William J. Griffin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Richard E. Andeen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Phillip D. Allen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gabriel J. Hall, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jeremy Michael Ehrhardt, Seattle, WA (US);
Eilene Hao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexander Malck, Seattle, WA (US);
William J. Griffin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Richard E. Andeen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Phillip D. Allen, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gabriel J. Hall, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jeremy Michael Ehrhardt, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A front-end computing system initializes an instance of a workflow. The workflow contains a plurality of activities. The plurality of activities includes a shim activity. When the front-end computing system executes the workflow instance, the front-end computing system performs the shim activity. When the front-end computing system performs the shim activity, the front-end computing system sends a custom activity assembly to a sandbox computing system. The custom activity assembly is not fully trusted. The sandbox computing system executes the custom activity assembly. The sandbox computing system is isolated from the front-end computing system such that unexpected behavior of the sandbox computing system does not cause the front-end computing system to perform unexpected behavior.