The Microsoft Repository.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/BernsteinHSSZ97,
  author    = {Philip A. Bernstein and
               Brian Harry and
               Paul Sanders and
               David Shutt and
               Jason Zander},
  editor    = {Matthias Jarke and
               Michael J. Carey and
               Klaus R. Dittrich and
               Frederick H. Lochovsky and
               Pericles Loucopoulos and
               Manfred A. Jeusfeld},
  title     = {The Microsoft Repository},
  booktitle = {VLDB'97, Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 25-29, 1997, Athens, Greece},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1997},
  isbn      = {1-55860-470-7},
  pages     = {3-12},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/BernsteinHSSZ97.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/97},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

The Microsoft Repository is an object-oriented repository that ships as a component of Visual Basic (Version 5.0). It includes a set of ActiveX interfaces that a developer can use to define information models, and a repository engine that is the under- lying storage mechanism for these information models. The repository engine sits on top of a SQL database system.

The repository is designed to meet the persistent storage needs of software tools. Its two main technical goals are:

• compatibility with Microsoft's existing ActiveX object architecture consisting of the Component Object Model (COM) and Automation and
• extensibility by customers and independent software vendors who need to tailor the repository by adding functionality to objects stored by the repository engine and extending infor- mation models provided by Microsoft and others.

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