Sample MasterPages - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Microsoft has provided a set of MasterPages for WSS:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7c05ca44-869a-463b-84d7-57b053711a96&displaylang=en

Acropolis - next generation platform for building WPF Applications

Acropolis is a next generation platform for building the kinds of applications that you currently build with CAB (Composite UI Application Block). With Acropolis you basically define your entire application in a very rich designer environment... etcetera... Sounds great.

Here is more information, video and package download available:

http://windowsclient.net/Acropolis/Default.aspx

WCSF June 2007 released

The June 2007 release of the Web Client Software Factory is an update to the January 2007 release and contains the following changes:

• The guidance package uses the February 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit
• The software factory uses the Enterprise Library 3.1 – May 2007.
• The guidance package recipes support Web Application Projects.
• The guidance package includes recipes that create Visual Basic .NET source code.
• The Windows installer includes a feature to analyze the computer for required and optional software dependencies.
• The Windows installer includes source code snippets for typical page flow development activities.
• Fix for the Add View (with presenter) Recipe which sometimes would not load due to an exception.

The WCSF is available here: http://www.codeplex.com/websf

Additional Links:

Michael Puleio - Development Lead - http://blogs.msdn.com/mpuleio
Blaine Wastell - Program Manager - http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine