Acropolis update, links from Brad Abrams, Some Thoughts, and Screenshots...
Brad provides some insight into the happenings at TechEd 07 and then provides a list of hot acropolis links here.
Make sure to check out the video provided through SilverLight and the links on Brad's latest post, Bonus Acropolis Information: Video, Live docs and More!
I found The Acropolis Stack image particularly interesting.
I did get it fired up last night and it is definitely sweet. A very different approach to anything I have seen before. Usually I would be very hesitant and nervous about such a layer of abstraction between the code and the designer, but having used the CAB very extensively, the PnP team that worked on it has won my confidence. According to some of the blogs out there some of the same team is working on it
I will still want to treat it as any other new COTS product and Proof of Concept the heck out of it, but the team behind it has won my confidence.
There are several sample applications that come with the install. They provide two Walkthroughs in the help file. You can download the help file with out installing. One Walkthrough for Building an Acropolis Notepad Application, which can be seen in the video introduction here, and one on Building an Acropolis RSS Reader Application .
The approach to implementing the parts through the designer was the most surprising and the most unique thing I saw in the approach the team took. Below is a screenshot of the NotePadPart and the toolbox that appears when you are designing it. Below that is a shot from the help document of the toolbox.
larger image here
Click the image for larger view.
Make sure to check out the video provided through SilverLight and the links on Brad's latest post, Bonus Acropolis Information: Video, Live docs and More!
I found The Acropolis Stack image particularly interesting.
I did get it fired up last night and it is definitely sweet. A very different approach to anything I have seen before. Usually I would be very hesitant and nervous about such a layer of abstraction between the code and the designer, but having used the CAB very extensively, the PnP team that worked on it has won my confidence. According to some of the blogs out there some of the same team is working on it
I will still want to treat it as any other new COTS product and Proof of Concept the heck out of it, but the team behind it has won my confidence.
There are several sample applications that come with the install. They provide two Walkthroughs in the help file. You can download the help file with out installing. One Walkthrough for Building an Acropolis Notepad Application, which can be seen in the video introduction here, and one on Building an Acropolis RSS Reader Application .
The approach to implementing the parts through the designer was the most surprising and the most unique thing I saw in the approach the team took. Below is a screenshot of the NotePadPart and the toolbox that appears when you are designing it. Below that is a shot from the help document of the toolbox.
larger image here
Click the image for larger view.
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