July 2007 - Posts
The RSS Eagle sample demonstrates Acropolis Navigation, Dynamic Pane Layout, Acropolis Transition and Acropolis Services. The first of the 3 short videos introduces the RSS Eagle Sample,explains its functionality in the context of Acropolis and focuses on the RssContentService as the reusable component of the business logic.
Author: Alex Bulankou
The RSS Eagle sample demonstrates Acropolis Navigation, Dynamic Pane Layout, Acropolis Transition and Acropolis Services. This is the second of 3 short videos based on the RSS Eagle Sample. In this presentation, we show how to build a custom navigator in Acropolis, and how that navigator can be consumed in the RSS Eagle Sample.
Author: Alex Bulankou
The RSS Eagle Sample demonstrates Acropolis Navigation, Dynamic Pane Layout, Acropolis Transitions, and Acropolis Services. This is the third of 3 short videos based on the RSS Eagle Sample. In this video, we demonstrate how you can create your own Acropolis theme by deriving from Microsoft.Acropolis.Windows.Theme class, merging one the predefined Acropolis Themes and adding your custom styles.
Author: Alex Bulankou
Acropolis has many extension points through which applications can be customized. The Acropolis Part Portal sample demonstrates how these customizations can be harnessed as well as the power that Acropolis brings to developers without limiting what they can accomplish. In this presentation, we demonstrate how to use the Part Portal and explain some of the customizations of Acropolis components, specifically the LayoutPane and LifetimeManager, used in the sample.
Author: Brett Samblanet
Acropolis simplifies application development by doing a lot of the plumbing that would otherwise have to be rewritten with every application for you. This presentation demonstrates the creation of a simple text editing application, the Acropolis Notepad sample, from Acropolis Parts and Controls. But this is no ordinary Notepad. The Acropolis Notepad is our "Hello, World!" exercise, and showcases most of the basic features in Acropolis. In this demonstration, we show how Acropolis makes extension and customization easy for the developer by adding some features that plain old Notepad never had.
Author: Ricky Tan
<p>In this video Pat Tormey explains the functions and use of Datasets in VS2005.</p>
Author: Pat Tormey
There are two ways to access command line parameters in a WPF application. In this presentation Todd Miranda explores the easiest way to access command line parameters in a WPF application created with Visual Studio.
Author: Todd Miranda
Depending on users’ security settings, a standard WPF windows application may have full access to the computer. As such, there are a lot of options for persisting application data such as the registry, the local file system, and the Settings class. An additional option is .NET's isolated storage space. Isolated storage is an interesting option in that it works in all the environments that managed code can run. This presentation demonstrates how to use isolated storage to persist and restore application data.
Author: Todd Miranda
In this video Pat Tormey demonstrates how to implement settings and place resources in Visual Studio.
Author: Pat Tormey
Acropolis includes a set of visual components for rich presentation in your applications. Among these are LayoutPanes, which represent various layout strategies for PartPanes such as tabbed and split-view. This presentation introduces LayoutPanes and how you can take advantage of them in your Acropolis applications.
Author: Kathy Kam
Acropolis Views allow you to create user interfaces for interacting with your parts. In this presentation we demonstrate how to create a new view in WPF for an existing part, and then to wire up that view to the part's connection points. You'll see how Acropolis allows you to cleanly specify your UI separate from the business logic behind it.
Author: David Poll