Video: Introducing Acropolis
Video link: Introducing Acropolis
Author: David Hill
Duration: 12 Minutes
Quick summary of the points in the video:
Acropolis provides:
- Application Templates (Part Library, WPF Application, WPF Document-Style Application)
- Application Wizard:
- Theme (only a single theme in CTP 1 but more in subsequent releases)
- Navigation (single/multiple item)
- Layout (default, tabbed, split layout)
- Includes options for main menu, toolbar, status bar
- Component designer - visually design business components
- Pre-built Part templates (Generic Part and Document-Centric Part)
- Document Manager - manages creation, opening, closing, saving of documents (by providing handlers for the relevant commands)
- Allows you to establish editors for different document types
- Prompts to save changes, etc
Acropolis Design points:
- Modular approach to building applications
- Basic building block is the “Part”
- Separation between UI and logic
- UI piece is called the “View”
- Business logic components defined in code and hooked up via XAML
- Connection points (data provider, component property, service dependency, etc) define how logic is wired to the View
[via Eric Nelson]


