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]