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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsPeter GROENEWEGEN, Arjun RADHAKRISHNA, Gustavo ARAUJO SOARES, Mark Alistair WILSON-THOMAS, Piyush ARORA, Aaron Chak Hei YIM, David Ellis PUGH, German David OBANDO CHACON, Andrew Richard STERLAND, Gregory MISKELLY
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Embodiments automate surfacing of underutilized development tool features, thereby enhancing the discoverability of subtools, commands, shortcuts, settings, visualizers, and other tool features. After spotting an inefficiency in the user’s interaction with one or more tools, the feature surfacing functionality offers the user an interaction optimization suggestion. A mapping structure correlates detected interaction patterns with objectively better interaction optimizations. Several examples of mappings are discussed. The user can accept a suggestion, have the suggested optimization applied by an enhanced tool, and thereby reduce the number of user gestures utilized to accomplish a desired result, reduce the number of tools utilized, increase security, reduce risk of error, or get to the desired result faster, for example. Interaction optimizations also help the user stay focused, by reducing or avoiding departures from the user’s current primary workflow. Other aspects of tool feature surfacing functionality are also described herein.
A computing system configured to improve tool feature discoverability, the computing system comprising:
A method for improving tool feature discoverability, the method performed by a computing system, the method comprising:
A computer-readable storage device configured with data and instructions which upon execution by a processor cause a computing system to perform a tool feature discovery method, the method comprising:
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