Intellisense in project upgrade

• US 7,127,707 B1
• Filed: 10/10/2002
• Issued: 10/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mishra, Debi Prasad, C. H., Gopinath, Alex, Thomas, Rajaram, Sadagopan, Joshi, Devidas, Rao, P. Vasantha, M. N., Kishore
• Primary Examiner(s): Chaki, Kakali
• Assistant Examiner(s): Francis, Mark P.
• Application Number:
  US10/268,515
• Time in Patent Office: 1,475 Days
• Field of Search: 717106-148, 717136-171
• US Class Current: 717/137
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/423 Preprocessors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management

Abstract

An exemplary upgrade module includes an upgrade wizard component, an upgrade analyzer component, and a source analyzer component wherein the upgrade wizard component operates in conjunction with an IDE to facilitate migration of source code or a project to the IDE or a runtime engine and/or OS associated with the IDE. An exemplary method includes selecting a source code or project written in a programming language associated with a native compiler that targets a native runtime engine, analyzing the code or project and then upgrading the code or project based on the analyzing such that the resulting upgraded code or project can compile on a foreign compiler and target a foreign runtime engine. According to such an exemplary method, the upgrade or migration optionally occurs without modifying the selected source code. Other exemplary methods, devices and/or systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method implemented at least in part by a computing device, the method comprising:

selecting at least a portion of source code written in a programming language having an associated native compiler and an associated native runtime engine; and

executing an upgrade module, the upgrade module

configured to determine issues related to compilation of the source code on a foreign compiler

configured to insert comments in the source code that indicate required changes and that link to prescriptive guidance to help resolve one or more of the issues and

configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and occurrences of unsupported packages and classes with file and line information to help resolve one or more of the issues.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting comprises selecting the source code using an upgrade wizard initiated in an integrated development environment.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising resolving resolvable issues wherein the resolving optionally comprises adding references.

4. A computer-readable medium, having at least one physical media, storing computer-executable instructions to select at least a portion of source code written in a programming language having an associated native compiler and an associated native runtime engine;

and to execute an upgrade module, the upgrade module configured to determine issues related to compilation of the source code on a foreign compiler, configured to insert comments in the source code that indicate required chances and that link to prescriptive guidance to help resolve one or more of the issues and configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and occurrences of unsupported packages and classes with file and line information to help resolve one or more of the issues.

5. A method implemented at least in part by a computing device, the method comprising:

selecting at least a portion of source code written in a programming language having an associated native compiler and an associated native runtime engine;

setting a foreign compiler to operate in a special mode configured to determine issues related to compilation of the source code on the foreign compiler, configured to insert comments in the source code that indicate required changes and that link to prescriptive guidance to help resolve one or more of the issues and configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and occurrences of unsupported packages and classes with file and line information to help resolve one or more of the issues.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the setting comprises using an interface for communicating settings.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the special mode to determine issues is configured to analyze information using one or more APIs.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the special mode to determine issues is configured to identify information related to one or more missing class references.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the special mode to determine issues is configured to use an API to locate a class based at least in part on the information related to one or more missing class references.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the special mode to determine issues is configured to search to detect type libraries for one or more COM interfaces.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the search comprises a registry search.

12. The method of claim 5, wherein the special mode is configured to identify information related to API calls.

13. A computer-readable medium, having at least one physical media, storing computer-executable instructions to select at least a portion of source code written in a programming language having an associated native compiler and an associated native runtime engine;

to set a foreign compiler to operate in a special mode configured to determine issues related to compilation of the source code on the foreign compiler, configured to insert comments in the source code that indicate required changes and that link to prescriptive guidance to help resolve one or more of the issues and configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and occurrences of unsupported packages and classes with file and line information to help resolve one or more of the issues.

14. A compiler implemented at least in part by a computing device, the compiler configured to identify information related to compilation of a foreign source code, written in a programming language, to an intermediate language code, configured to determine issues related to compilation of the foreign source code on the compiler, configured to insert comments in the foreign source code that indicate required changes and that link to prescriptive guidance to help resolve one or more of the issues and configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and occurrences of unsupported packages and classes with file and line information to help resolve one or more of the issues.

15. An upgrade module implemented at least in part by a computing device, the upgrade module comprising:

an upgrade wizard component;

an upgrade analyzer component; and

a source analyzer component wherein the upgrade wizard component operates in conjunction with an IDE to facilitate migration of source code written in a programming language or an uncompiled project to the IDE or a runtime engine associated with the IDE;

wherein the upgrade module is configured to insert comments in the source code that indicate required changes and that link to prescriptive guidance and further configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and unsupported packages and classes with file and line information.

16. The upgrade module of claim 15, wherein the upgrade wizard component comprises a GUI for displaying an estimated effort required for the migration of the source code or the project, an estimated time to completion of the migration of the source code or the project, and/or a progress indicator to indicate progress toward complete migration of the source code or the project.

17. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to identify external references, convert the external references, and add the converted references to the source code or the project.

18. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to present a task list of one or more issues that may require and/or result in a change to the source code.

19. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to accept user supplied information about additional references and/or class paths and to use the user supplied information in an analysis.

20. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to identify use of WFC and/or COM references.

21. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to identify CLSIDs associated with COM servers.

22. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to identify occurrences of unresolved references to types and provide file and line information that indicate where any particular occurrence occurred.

23. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to probe a class path to locate any missing references.

24. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to collate multiple instances of unresolved references.

25. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to filter multiple instances of an unresolved reference to a single item.

26. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to collate multiple instances of references to COM servers.

27. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to filter multiple instances of references to COM servers to a single item for each COM server.

28. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to collate multiple instances of locations in CLASSPATH where an unresolved type is located.

29. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to create an upgrade report with project or code information and upgrade issues and to add hyperlinks to a relevant help topic for each issue.

30. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to annotate class libraries and to identify classes with compatibility issues and unsupported classes.

31. The upgrade module of claim 15, configured to navigate one or more help topics using a keyword wherein the navigation implements a link from an upgrade report listing an issue to a corresponding help topic.

32. A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, to facilitate migration of source code to an integrated development environment or a runtime engine associated with the integrated development environment, the method comprising:

providing source code written in a programming language;

analyzing the source code for issues;

deciding whether all of the issues are automatically resolvable to allow for migration of the source code to an integrated development environment or a runtime engine associated with the integrated development environment; and

if all of the issues are not automatically resolvable, initiating a software module configured to insert comments in the source code that indicate required changes to the source code and that link to prescriptive guidance and configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and unsupported packages and classes with file and line information.

33. A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, to facilitate migration of an uncompiled project to an integrated development environment or a runtime engine associated with the integrated development environment, the method comprising:

providing the uncompiled project;

analyzing the uncompiled project for issues;

deciding whether the issues are automatically resolvable to allow for migration of the uncompiled project to an integrated development environment or a runtime engine associated with the integrated development environment;

if all of the issues are not automatically resolvable, initiating a software module configured to insert comments in the uncompiled project that indicate required changes to the uncompiled project and that link to prescriptive guidance and configured to identify occurrences of references to packages and classes with compatibility issues and unsupported packages and classes with file and line information.