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AL Office+ Pack Beta was released!

Now Abstract Desktop works for Microsoft Office! With AL Office+ Pack you can show your user interface in MS Excel, and soon we'll add the support for other MS Office applications (MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Power Point, etc.). When developing standard desktop applications, you were showing your dockable windows and MDI child forms in a desktop application. Now these windows and forms can be rendered in MS Office application, and you don't need to recompile your code.

AL Platform provides an Add-In framework for rapid development of flexible solutions with a complex user interface. AL Platform introduces the concept of Abstract Desktop, and defines a new development methodology - Tool-Oriented Approach.

A tool is an independent software module - Add-In - which can be hosted inside other applications. The idea of abstract desktop allows these tools to utilize the application's workspace and menu without recompiling the tool itself, and without recompiling the application.

AL Platform is not an external program you should use in order to manage your application. AL Platform is a component library which ships as a set of .NET assemblies. If you want to build a reliable and flexible application that consists of a set of reusable modules your choice will be AL Platform!

Explicit MVC

Despite the idea of separating application's logic and view appeared in early 1980's with MVC (Model - View - Controller) pattern, seems like now it's a de facto standard for reliable and flexible applications development. One can even consider MVC to be an application framework which provides solution architecture. However, existing MVC implementations are not so easy to use, and leave much to be desired. With our Explicit MVC you get the following:

• nothing is implicit: no string constants - your commands are represented as class methods, no object builders to start the application properly - you even can define new assembly at run-time and build new controller class via emit
• asynchronous controller method execution
• dynamic update listeners management (attaching/detaching listeners at run time)
• notifying update listeners whenever is needed
• full control over the execution flow via metadata that is transferred.

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