Li Ma

US Patent:

8418165, Apr 9, 2013

Filed:

May 27, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/472380

Inventors:

Phillip Michael Hoff - Duvall WA, US
Shi Sun - Redmond WA, US
Daniel A. Molina - Bellevue WA, US
Li Ma - Bellevue WA, US
Lubomir I. Birov - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

US Classification:

717168, 717110, 717111, 717112, 717113

Abstract:

Solution packages for a product for deployment on a collection of servers can be designed using one or more designers that provide user interfaces for visually arranging and configuring elements of the product. A package object model includes a managed object model that represents a package or feature manifest as defined by a product manifest XML schema. The object model can be used to create references to other project item and feature definitions. The extended object model can be used to generate an equivalent package or feature manifest XML file.