Diagnostics of declarative source elements
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsFelix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew, Ahmad Khalifa Eesa Ahmad, Michael C. Fanning
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Abstract
A method for diagnosing declarative source elements in an application, such as in debugging markup source elements or visual elements in an application, is disclosed. Diagnosis information is associated with an object source of a visual element. The diagnosis information is provided for the visual element during the runtime of the application.
Claims20
A method of diagnosing declarative source elements in an application, comprising:
- associating diagnosis information with an object source of an element;
- and
- providing the diagnosis information for the element during runtime of the application.
A method for diagnosing visual elements in an application, comprising:
- annotating diagnosis information into an object markup source of a visual element during compilation of the application;
- and
- providing the diagnosis information for the visual element during runtime of the application.
A computer readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer system, perform a method of diagnosing visual elements in an application comprising:
- receiving a declarative extensible markup source file and associated code for a visual element in the application;
- annotating diagnosis information including source document location of the declarative extensible markup source file associated with the visual element into the declarative extensible markup file of the visual element during compilation of the application;
- loading the declarative extensible markup file of the visual element during a runtime;
- and
- providing the diagnosis information at selected points during the runtime of the application.
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