David Hill's WebLogIblogyoublogweblogAcropolis Team Blog- June 12, 2007 Be sure to check out the Acropolis Team Blog too. We'll be posting regularly to this blog to keep you up to date with our progress but it also provides a venue where you can direct questions right to the whole Acropolis team. The other nice thing about the team blog is that it lets all of the Acropolis team interact directly with the community, and lets you see firsthand some of the extremely cool work they are doing. Take this post by Ricky Tan, a SDET on the Acropolis team, for example...http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2007/06/12/acropolis-team-blog.aspx Three New Acropolis Videos Available!- June 12, 2007 We've just posted three new videos to the Acropolis community site: Using Acropolis PartPanes - In this video, David Poll shows you how the Acropolis PartPane control provides basic management & support services for part views. David shows you how you can use a PartPane to control placement of your part views, and how to configure the various features of the PartPane, such as the part command menu. Finally, David shows you how to create an additional view for your part and how you can.http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2007/06/12/three-new-acropolis-videos-available.aspx Acropolis TechEd: Q2 Cool applications with little or no code Really Are you sure- June 11, 2007 Continuing the series of posts on the top 5 Acropolis questions at TechEd 2007... Now this is a really good question and usually led to a great discussion! It usually followed in response to one of three things - the demos that we gave, the template and wizard features in Acropolis, or our adoption of XAML as a declarative format for components. Simple Apps vs Real-World Apps This question is usually asked in response to some of the demos that we've been showing here at TechEd. Since Acropolis..http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2007/06/11/acropolis-teched-q2-cool-applications-with... Acropolis TechEd: Q1 What is Acropolis and what can I do with it- June 11, 2007 Kicking off a series of posts on the top 5 Acropolis questions at TechEd 2007... A question asked by a lot of people who are unsure what scenarios we're targeting with Acropolis, or whether they could use Acropolis to build the kinds of applications that they are interested in. When we describe Acropolis, we say that "Acropolis is intended to make the development of modular, business focused applications easier". Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what does that mean Business Focused By business focused, we.http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2007/06/11/acropolis-teched-q1-what-is-acropolis-and-... The Top 5 Acropolis Questions At TechEd- June 11, 2007 Well, the Acropolis team had a busy week last week. Most of the team was back in Redmond busily working on our CTP 2 release but a number of us went down to Orlando to talk about Acropolis at TechEd 2007. TechEd was a great opportunity for us to talk with developers about our goals for Acropolis and to answer developer's questions directly. We only announced Acropolis at the beginning of last week, so most attendees hadn't had much time to download the Acropolis CTP 1 release and to really...http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2007/06/11/the-top-5-acropolis-questions-at-teched.as... Introducing Acropolis...- June 5, 2007 Well, it's been over a year since I last blogged about client application development on the .NET Framework. I haven't been idle though - I've been busily working on an exciting project code named "Acropolis", and I'm very happy to report that we just released our first Community Technology Preview yesterday! If you build client applications, especially business focused line-of-business applications, on .NET then you should find Acropolis interesting. At its most basic level, Acropolis..http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2007/06/05/introducing-acropolis.aspx |