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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Monty Hammontree, Duvall, WA (US);
Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, Redmond, WA (US);
Brandon Adams, Auburn, WA (US);
Steven John Clarke, Edinburgh, GB;
Zachary S Zaiss, Seattle, WA (US);
David Pugh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a system and method for optimizing a developer's ability to find and navigate relevant documents, relationships, and other information related to an identifier in the code they are developing. An inline viewport is presented to the user in response to the user selecting an identifier in the code whereby the user is able to see relevant information related to the identifier in a spatially consistent location with the code they are investigating. The developer further has the ability to cascade the viewports such that multiple levels of depth of relationships can be viewed in the viewport.