APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLKIT

• US 20130067432A1
• Filed: 09/12/2011
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Feies, Daniel, Russell, Jared, Czeisler, Adam
• Application Number:
  US13/230,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20130067432A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

The present disclosure describes an application development toolkit that includes a memory device configured to store programming constructs of a scripting language. The programming constructs may be configured to define an application. The application development toolkit includes a processing device configured to dynamically generate, in the memory device, an abstract tree structure including at least a portion of the programming constructs that define logic components of the application. The processing device is further configured to build a user interface for the application by concatenating user interface components received from the at least a portion of the programming constructs included in the abstract tree structure.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory device configured to store programming constructs of a scripting language, the programming constructs being configured to define an application; and

a processing device configured to;

dynamically generate, in the memory device, an abstract tree structure including at least a portion of the programming constructs that define logic components of the application; and

build a user interface for the application by concatenating user interface components received from the at least a portion of the programming constructs included in the abstract tree structure.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to build the user interface by concatenating hypertext markup language or cascading style sheet strings from the at least a portion of the programming constructs in the abstract tree structure.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to enable simulation of distinct entry points to each of the programming constructs in response to the abstract tree structure.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to enable mocking at least one dependency of at least one of the programming constructs to another of the programming constructs.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to enable testing functionality of at least one of the programming constructs without testing functionality of the application.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing device is further configured to selectively attach programming constructs to the abstract tree structure in response to the application.

7. A memory device having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a processing device, causes the processing device to perform operations comprising:

loading programming constructs of a scripting language configured to generate an application;

dynamically generating, in the memory device, an abstract tree structure including at least a portion of programming constructs that define logic components of the application; and

building a user interface for the application by concatenating user interface components from the at least a portion of the programming constructs in the abstract tree in response to the application.

8. The memory device of claim 7, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processing device to perform operations further comprising building the user interface by concatenating hypertext markup language or cascading style sheet strings from the at least a portion of the programming constructs.

9. The memory device of claim 7, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processing device to perform operations further comprising enabling simulation of distinct entry points to each of the programming constructs in response to the abstract tree structure.

10. The memory device of claim 7, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processing device to perform operations further comprising enabling mocking at least one dependency of at least one of the programming constructs to another of the programming constructs.

11. The memory device of claim 7, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processing device to perform operations further comprising enabling testing functionality of at least one of the programming constructs without testing functionality of the application.

12. The memory device of claim 7, wherein execution of the instructions causes the processing device to perform operations further comprising selectively attaching programming constructs to the abstract tree structure in response to the application.

13. A method, comprising:

identifying objects stored in a memory device of a computing device, the objects enabling generation of an application;

generating, in the memory device, a tree structure representing the application and including at least a portion of the objects that define logic components for the application; and

building a user interface for the application in response to the tree structure.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein building the user interface further comprises concatenating strings from the at least a portion of the logic objects.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

enabling simulation of a plurality of entry points to each of the logic objects in the application in response to the tree structure.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

enabling mocking at least one dependency of at least one of the logic objects to another of the logic objects.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

testing functionality of at least one of the logic objects without testing functionality of the application.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

selectively attaching at least one of the logic objects to the tree structure in response to a state of the at least one of the logic objects.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the state comprises saving state, suspending state, restoring state, or resuming state.

20. The method of claim 13, further comprising building the tree structure in response to:

a plurality of entry points to the application;

a universal reference locator for the application;

a state of an operating system associated with the application;

a state of the application;

an action of a user;

user data;

or

a hardware configuration of the computing device.