Suzanne V Cook

US Patent:

7487498, Feb 3, 2009

Filed:

Nov 12, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/706684

Inventors:

James H. Hogg - Bellevue WA, US
William G. Evans - Redmond WA, US
Suzanne M. Cook - Redmond WA, US
Sean E. Trowbridge - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 9/45

US Classification:

717162

Abstract:

A strategy is described for assisting a supplier in updating code without negatively impacting preexisting applications that may interact with the original or updated code. In this strategy, a resource is transferred from a first code module to a second code module. So that the applications that utilize the resource can continue to access this resource, the strategy adds forwarding information to a new version of the first code module. The forwarding information provides a note which shows the Common Language Runtime (CLR) where to find the specified resource when the code modules are executed.