Acropolis Out, WPF Composite Client Applications in!

Acropolis Out, WPF Composite Client Applications in!

Back in June 2007, during Teched Orlando, Microsoft has announced the new Client Application Framework: "Acropolis". In the mean time, the patterns & practices team has announced that there are no plans for future releases of CAB and the Smart Client Application Block, and the support for WPF in CAB will be limited to Winforms Interop scenarions only (covered in SCSF May 2007 release).

As many incubation project in Microsoft, some are decided to be closed, as well as the Acropolis project. Yesterday, The Acropolis team  has announced that  the core Acropolis concepts  will be rolled into future .NET Framework releases.

So, how will we build WPF Composite Client Applications?

Well, until the next version of the .Net Framework will contain its Client Application Framework that supports WPF composite applications, the patters and practices team has been working on a new initiative called "WPF Composite Client", which is not a new version of CAB, since CAB cannot take full advantage of WPF capabilities. Therefore the "WPF Composite Client" is a new project, build from the ground up, that will allow building composite application and using the best of WPF.

read more about it in here.

enjoy!