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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2008
William E. Gibson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Keith W. Short, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrea R. Westerinen, Issaquah, WA (US);
William E. Gibson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Keith W. Short, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrea R. Westerinen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment may be practiced in a computing environment and includes method acts for creating a new component model from an existing component model. The method includes accessing an existing component definition. The existing component definition is included in an existing component schema, which includes definitions of configuration parameters defined for the existing component including defining that one or more parameters are further configurable. Definitions of the one or more parameters that are defined as being further configurable are refined. The refined definitions for the one or more parameter values are stored in a refined schema defining refinements of the component definition, without including the existing component schema. The refined schema is stored separately from the existing component schema.