Folded views in development environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9026992-B2
Application number	US-201213530132-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2012
Priority date	Jun 22, 2012
Publication date	May 5, 2015
Grant date	May 5, 2015

Abstract

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to folded views for a development environment. In aspects, a software development environment may display a code segment that includes references to other code segments or other data. A developer may select a reference and indicate that a folded view is to be shown for the data corresponding to the reference. In response, the software development environment may obtain the data corresponding to the folded view and display the data inline with the code segment.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method implemented at least in part by a computer, the method comprising:
displaying a first code segment of a program on a graphical interface of a software development environment;
receiving input that indicates a reference to a second code segment of the program;
on the graphical interface, inline with the first code segment, displaying a folded view of the second code segment; and
on the graphical interface, inline with the first code segment, di…

Assignees

• Bragdon Andrew C
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Bragdon Andrew C

Classifications

• G06F3/04842

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F8/34

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F8/33 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic