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The good folks over at Virtual TechEd recently posted an interview with the Acropolis folks... Take a look! (Other great interviews are there as well) Welcome to Acropolis Members from the Acropolis Team—Kathy Kam, David Hill, and Scott Morrison—explain the hype behind this new technology. What is Acropolis ? It’s a set of components and tools that make it easier for you to build modular, business-focused applications on the .NET framework, and is part of the “.NET Client Futures” wave of releases, Microsoft’s preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development. Blog Acropolis here . Watch Now ↓ Downloads: Zune WMV To save, right click and choose 'save target as…'. Read More...

Care to guess what the Acropolis team was doing right before the 4th of July holiday? Well, very, very late on July 3rd (or was that early on the 4th?) the team got the July CTP posted! Thanks folks! This is a minor update to the bits we shipped at TechEd a few weeks back which contains a few of the most requested features and bug fixes from the forums and TechEd attendees. Kathy lists a few of the cool new things to try out in the July CTP over on the Acropolis Team blog... In addition, we are polishing a new line of business focused example application that should be published soon. Download the bits today and let us hear your feedback . thanks! Read More...

I love the DNR guys... they recently posted a very good interview with the acropolis gang... Have a listen! .NET Rocks! #248 - Introducing Acropolis Carl and Richard talk with members of the Microsoft Acropolis team at TechEd 2007. Acropolis is a software factory-ish toolset that allows business developers to develop quality line-of-business WPF applications with ease. Listen now or download in nearly any format you want... Hang out to the end of talk to hear where the "Acropolis" name came from.... Enjoy! Read More...

Today I ran across two very interesting and well written explanations of different aspects of Acropolis written by folks outside of Acropolis team! I am stoked to fine such good stuff for an effort that is so early form folks that were not directly involved in building it. Thanks to everyone in the community who is jumping in head-first on acropolis... Also, over on the Acropolis team blog, Kathy is aggregating useful acropolis posts from the team.. is there something else you'd like to see more information on? Microsoft Codename Acropolis - Unwrapped By Kevin Hoffman on The .NET Addict's Blog In this post I take a look at Acropolis - what it is and why should developers be concerned about it. Also, I compare it to some offerings on OS X to...

One of the cool things about acropolis is that you can define different views for the same business logic. This separation of concerns between presentation and business logic is nothing new , but the core acropolis architecture makes it much easier to do. The CPU\Memory Watcher demo is a great example of this power. And with the power of WPF, the views can be very cool... The default view is a gauge view But click on the command bar and you can change the view to a more data oriented graph view.. The other thing that is way cool about Acropolis is that while it fully expolits WPF, it is not tied to it... So you can even use the full graphics power of the command console! You can get the source code here , but a few notes about the implementation...

We heard laud and clear at Teched that folks wanted to see more of acroplis... So here we are the first day back from TechEd and we have three new videos including source code... Catch all the action at: http://windowsclient.net/acropolis/ Enjoy! Using Acropolis PartPanes The Acropolis PartPane allows you to host the views of child parts within the views of their parent components. In addition, the PartPane provides a chrome, which exposes some of your parts' functionality to the user automatically, and helps to provide a uniform visual experience for nested parts. This presentation demonstrates how to use the PartPane, and introduces some of its features. Author: David Poll Duration: 5 minutes, 22 seconds Video Downloads: WMV | Zune | iPod...

Oh, cool, I just learned that if I work fast I can have a blog post of mine featured prominently in Kathy's talk at TechEd, DEV318 - Windows .NET Client: Building Rich Client UI with the “ Acropolis ” Framework. Here is a video I published this on Silverlight.live.com with Jame's Live Writer plug in . var AppNameWrapper7eae9594a5194777aadbe764470e4953 = document.getElementById("AppNameWrapper7eae9594a5194777aadbe764470e4953"); CreateSilverlight7eae9594a5194777aadbe764470e4953(); Also, we have on line docs! I love being able to link to exactly the part of the framework you are talking about... plus they are easier to find with your search engine of choice.. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139638.aspx A few suggestions: Walkthrough...

Wow – there has been some really good buzz on acropolis in the last 24 hours… Reading over the blogs and stuff two interesting questions are popping out: Question: When are you shipping Acropolis!! Answer: As soon as it is ready ;-) Seriously, we are very early in the cycle here, we came out at Teched to get some early feedback and find out if we are going in the right direction. Acropolis will NOT ship with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5… Rather it will ship as an “option pack” style release that works super well with your Visual Studio 2008. Later we fully expect to fold in Acropolis into the next major release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Question: Does Acropolis support WinForms Answer: Yes. While the UI aspects of...

Back in 2005 I spent a week with our Product Support professionals “helping” to answer support calls… I was amazed that at the world’s largest software company the tools these folks use were not well integrated (I believe it has sense been addressed). A customer call comes in via one application giving some limited caller ID type of information, the operator cuts-and-paste the name from there into another app to look up their account status, then opens a case in a tracking application and again cut-and-pasts that information in and then opens up a website to check out the availability of a hot fix the customer was asking for.. Wow.. one simple action 4-5 applications. Why didn’t we have one application to unify them all? Well, our story my sound...