After many months, we can finally announce the public availibility of Acropolis! You can find the download here: http://windowsclient.net/Acropolis. Acropolis is a framework that allows you to easily build modular applications for the Windows Client. You can think of it as being very similar to the Smart Client Software Factory, althought this one is on steroids! Just a side note, this is not going to be delivered through the Patterns and Practices group, it will be a supported offering and has its own team within Microsoft. That's great news for all of us who have been developing smart clients!
Features included in Acropolis CTP1 includes:
- Declarative Composition - allows you to declarative program the structure of application components
- Navigation support - manages activation and deactivation of components
- Document Life Time support - manages the life time of a document bject
- Layout Pane - Split style and tab style UI layout that leverages WPF
- Transition Animation - Prepackage transitions built on WPF
... and all these comes with Application Design Time Support!
Here is another great description of what Acropolis does: http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2007/06/06/acropolis-the-future-of-smart-client.aspx
Hi Chad,
since you work with GAT and acropolis, i guess, u r the right person, who wud be able to help me
if i install acropolis august CTP, MY GAT 1.3 gets screwed up in VS 2008 beta 2....
when i try creating a new GAT project, VS cannot find "Microsoft.VisualStudio.TemplateWizard, Version 8.0.0.0....".
I need Acropolis and GAT both running on my machine. Can u please help me on this