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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRobert G. Atkinson, Antony S. Williams, Edward K. Jung
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A method and system for referring to and binding to objects using a moniker object is provided. In a preferred embodiments moniker object contains information to identify linked source data and provides methods through which a program can bind to the linked source data. A binding method is provided that returns an instance of an interface through which the linked source data can be accessed. The moniker object can identify source data that is stored persistently or nonpersistently. In addition, moniker objects can be composed to form a composite moniker object. A composite moniker object is used to identify linked source data that is nested in other data. In a preferred embodiment, the moniker object provides other methods including a reducing method that returns a more efficient representation of the moniker object; equality and hash methods for comparing moniker objects; and inverse, common prefix, and relative-path-to methods for comparing and locating moniker objects from other moniker objects. Several implementation of a moniker object are provided including a file moniker, an item moniker, a generic composite moniker, a pointer moniker, and an anti moniker. Each implementation is a moniker class and has a class identifier that identifies code to manage the moniker class.
A method in a computer system of referencing source data, the method comprising the steps of:
A method in a computer system of identifying a source object, the method comprising the steps of:
A method in a computer system for composing a first identifier object with a second identifier object to create a composite identifier object, each identifier object for identifying a source object and having a binding member function for binding to the source object, the method comprising the step of creating an instance of a composite identifier object, the composite identifier object containing a reference to the first identifier object and the second identifier object, the composite identifier object having a binding member function for binding to the object identified by the first identifier object and second identifier object.
A method in a computer system for composing a first identifier object with a second identifier object to create a composite identifier object, each identifier object for identifying a source object and having a binding member function for binding to the source object, the binding member function for receiving a reference to an identifier object that is logically left of the identifier object, the method comprising the steps of:
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