WPF Composite Client

After the announcement about the death of Acropolis, Glenn just announced that the patterns & practices team will develop WPF Composite Client guidance for building composite client applications for .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. This is not a new version of CAB . It is an entirely new set of  libraries and guidance, built from the ground up, targeting development of new WPF Composite applications. The target is to have all of the new guidance ship before the end of 2008.

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Acropolis - The end

The Acropolis team just announced today that Acropolis will not advance from CTP to a supported release. They also announced that they want to help customers who'd like to take Acropolis into production be successful until an alternative is available.
The good news is that all the great work the Acropolis team did will be rolled out in the future versions of .NET and also used for guidance and best practices for building WPF Composite Clients.

What is "Acropolis"?

Literally means the edge of a town or a high city; The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis (high city, The "Sacred Rock") in the world. (From Wikipedia)

Microsoft announced their Acropolis:

“Acropolis” is a set of components and tools that make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client .NET applications.

Acropolis is a framework that fosters the separation of UI from business logic. It allows an application to be composed of UI Agnostic parts that provide specific pieces of user functionality and services that support those parts. In addition to all of this, the framework is declarative with XAML and designer support.

 

The key to Acropolis is its modular approach.

Acropolis lets you divide your application into various functional pieces - components - that each encapsulates some specific pattern, strategy or piece of business or presentation logic. Acropolis then provides the ‘glue' to let you easily recombine these components to make a fully functional application.

What can you do with Acropolis?

• Quickly create WPF enabled user experiences for your client applications.
• Build client applications from reusable, connectable, modules that allow you to easily create complex, business-focused applications in less time.
• Integrate and host your modules in applications such as Microsoft Office, or quickly build stand-alone client interfaces.
• Change the look and feel of your application quickly using built-in themes, or custom designs using XAML.
• Add features such as workflow navigation and user-specific views with minimal coding.
• Manage, update, and deploy your application modules quickly and easily.

Acropolis Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/acropolis/

Acropolis July CTP release download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=44977885-86B5-4AA0-9F20-DB365BFB9D10&displaylang=en

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