Server-side control objects for processing client-side user interface elements

• US 7,321,918 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2004
• Issued: 01/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Guthrie, Scott D., Peters, Ted A., Burd, Gary S., Cooper, Kenneth B., Millet, Stephen J., Ebbo, David S., Anders, Mark T.
• Primary Examiner(s): LIN, WEN TAI
• Application Number:
  US10/966,618
• Publication Number:
  US 20050050164A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/219, 715/513, 718/315, 717/100
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A server-side control object processes and generates a client-side user interface element for display on a web page. Multiple server-side control objects may be combined into a hierarchy of server-side control objects that cooperate to generate the resulting authoring language code, such as HTML, for display of a web page on a client. The operation of processing the client-side user interface element may include at least one of an event handling operation, a postback data handling operation, a data binding operation, and a state management operation. The state management operation relates to the state of a server-side control object.

Claims

1. A method for processing one or more client-side user interface elements incorporated in a web page displayed on a client, the method comprising:

receiving first viewstate data from the client;

inputting one or more declarations from a server-side declaration datastore;

using the viewstate data to generate a hierarchy of server-side control obiects programmed based on the declarations to provide functionality of the client-side user interface elements, the hierarchy of server-side control objects being representative of a previous configuration;

processing the client-side user interface elements using the hierarchy of server-side control obiects; and

generating authoring language data from the hierarchy of server-side control objects for incorporating the client-side user interface elements in the web page; and

transmitting a configuration of the hierarchy of server-side control obiects to the client as viewstate data.

2. One or more computer-readable media including executable instructions that, when executed, implement a computer process that processes one or more client-side user interface elements incorporated in a web page on a client, the computer process comprising:

receiving first viewstate data from the client;

inputting one or more declarations from a server-side declaration datastore;

using the viewstate data to generate a hierarchy of server-side control objects programmed based on the declarations to provide functionality of the client-side user interface elements, the hierarchy of server-side control objects being representative of a previous configuration;

processing the client-side user interface elements using the hierarchy of server-side control objects; and

generating authoring language data from the hierarchy of server-side control objects for incorporating the client-side user interface elements in the web page; and

transmitting a configuration of the hierarchy of server-side control objects to the client as viewstate data.