Patent ID: 7676798
Filing Date: 2010-03-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform acts, the instructions comprising: receiving a string in an interactive environment, the string including a plurality of pipelined cmdlets, the plurality of pipelined cmdlets to share use of one or more common directive functions provided by an administrative tool framework, the one or more common directive functions are applicable to each of the cmdlets via attributions; identifying an attribution for each of the plurality of pipelined cmdlets within the string, each attribution to specify a constraint for an associated construct; identifying the associated construct of each attribution in the string; saving information that correlates each constraint with its associated construct as metadata that is associated with each construct; and executing the string in the interactive environment, wherein executing the string includes: wherein the one or more common directive functions used by each cmdlet is specified by a corresponding data structure that is instantiated into an object for the administrative tool framework.