SCHEMATIZED DATA INTELLIGENT ASSISTANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20090030902A1
• Filed: 07/24/2007
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Helal, Mohamed, Sadov, Vladimir G., Namboodiripad, Ghanashyam Chandrasekhar, Meijer, Henricus Johannes Maria, Schach, David N., Aharoni, Avner Y., Kimball, Andrew Eyring, Kitsis, Stanislav, Kothapalle, Sravani
• Application Number:
  US11/782,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20090030902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/33 Intelligent editors

Abstract

Intelligent assistance functionality is provided in development environments and/or other editors for schematized data. Input of a trigger character sequence can initiate an intelligent assistance box having data corresponding to a related schema. Thus, the intelligent assistance data can be dynamic as schematized data can change; the data can be queried from the schema as requested to facilitate this end. In one embodiment, the data can be an extensible markup language (XML) schema having a plurality of elements. In this regard, syntax can be entered into a development environment to effectuate an intelligent assistance box comprising the elements of the schema; a root level element can be displayed for an initial trigger character sequence. After selecting the element, another trigger sequence can be input to facilitate querying the schema for next level elements, and so on.

Claims

1. A system for providing intelligent assistance functionality, comprising:

a schematized data component that determines at least one schema relating to a portion of schematized data; and

a schematized data intelligent assistance component that employs an intelligent assistance box functionality that facilitates displaying one or more items for selection thereof based in part on a portion of a string, the intelligent assistance box has at least one entry corresponding to an element of the schema.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising an object data intelligent assistance component that provides intelligent assistance functionality for at least one object type related to the schematized data.

3. The system of claim 2, the schematized data intelligent assistance component provides intelligent assistance box content for at least one member related to a type of the schematized data and the object data intelligent assistance component provides box content for at least one class, type, or method of the object type.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a development environment for writing software applications that requests intelligent assistance data from the schematized data intelligent assistance component.

5. The system of claim 4, the development environment requests the intelligent assistance data based on a trigger character sequence input.

6. The system of claim 4, the development environment sends software application context information with the request.

7. The system of claim 6, the schematized data intelligent assistance component utilizes the context information to query the schema, at least one intelligent assistance box entry corresponds to a result of the query.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a schematized data flow management component that preserves an intelligent assistance context throughout one or more program elements.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a navigation matching component that at least one of filters or orders intelligent assistance box entries based in part on a property partition list related to the individual entries.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a schema caching component that caches one or more schemas, the schema caching component updates its cache based at least in part on window focus of an application requesting intelligent assistance functionality.

15. The method of claim 11, the intelligent assistance data relates to a trigger character sequence input in the program development environment.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising caching the one or more schemas for more efficient access, the cache is updated based in part on a window focus event in the program development environment.

11. A method for providing intelligent assistance functionality for schematized data, comprising:

compiling one or more schemas;

navigating the one or more schemas based in part on a program context from a program development environment; and

providing intelligent assistance data related to one or more elements of the one or more schemas to the program development environment, the intelligent assistance data facilitates displaying one or more items that completes an expression based in part on a portion of a string.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising providing intelligent assistance data related to one or more object types corresponding to a type of the schema.

13. The method of claim 11, the program context relates to at least one specified type in the schema.

14. The method of claim 13, the schema is queried for the specified type and the intelligent assistance data comprises disparate types related to the specified types in the schema.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising analyzing an expression context to preserve dataflow of the intelligent assistance data.

17. The method of claim 16, the expression context relates to at least one variable of the expression that has an assigned value corresponding to a type of the one or more schemas.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising generating intelligent assistance data lists for the one or more schemas and merging the lists based in part on a data similarity.

20. A system for providing intelligent assistance functionality that facilitates displaying one or more items for selection thereof based in part on a portion of a string in a development environment, comprising:

means for formulating an intelligent assistance data list related to schematized data;

means for formulating an intelligent assistance data list related to object type data; and

means for selecting which list to formulate based in part on one or more characters input into the development environment.