Michael Washington's Blog, page 13

Implementing Documents in a SharePoint 2013 Cloud Business App (LightSwitch)

You can create a Visual Studio LightSwitch SharePoint enabled Cloud Business App (CBA) that consumes and updates SharePoint Lists, including uploading documents to SharePoint Document Libraries. You can even dynamically create SharePoint Document Libraries in code so that they are available for use in your multi-tenant provider-hosted SharePoint applications…

Tags: Cloud Business App

Creating A LightSwitch SharePoint 2013 Multi-Tenant Provider-Hosted Application

When you deploy your SharePoint Provider-Hosted Cloud Business App, you can use an authentication key from the Microsoft Seller Dashboard to allow multiple SharePoint websites to consume the same website application. You can segment the data so that each SharePoint website only sees its own data using row level filtering…

Tags: Cloud Business App

Exploring SharePoint 2013 Visual Studio Cloud Business Apps (LightSwitch)

A Cloud Business App is simply a Visual Studio LightSwitch application configured to run on SharePoint 2013 (or higher). However, enabling the SharePoint framework adds a lot of functionality:

SharePoint Documents SharePoint News Feeds SharePoint Web / User

It is the SharePoint Web / User that we will explore here…

Tags: Cloud Business App

Creating A SharePoint Online Testing Site

A SharePoint development site is required to develop SharePoint Cloud Business Apps (LightSwitch applications enabled to run on SharePoint). However, to properly test, for example, a multi-tenant Cloud Business App, you will want to have another SharePoint site.

Setting one up is easy once you know how…

Tags: Cloud Business App

Using D3 Controls in ComponentOne Studio for LightSwitch HTML Client

The latest update to the ComponentOne Studio for LightSwitch adds data visualization.

This release adds five new charts powered by the D3.js library, Bubble Chart, Gantt Chart, Heatmap, Timeline, and Treemap…

Tags: Control Extensions

Deploy A LightSwitch Application To Office 365 / SharePoint Online (Provider Hosted)

You can deploy your LightSwitch applications to Office 365 / SharePoint Online…

Tags: Cloud Business App

Deploy A LightSwitch Application To Office 365 / SharePoint Online

You can easily deploy your LightSwitch applications to Office 365 / SharePoint Online…

Tags: Cloud Business App

WritingGauntlet.com: A Real world LightSwitch Application

I created this entire application by myself in my spare time using Visual Studio LightSwitch…

Tags: Applications

Creating Multiple Reports in a Single Project Using ActiveReports

Creating reports in the LightSwitch HTML Client using ActiveReports has been covered in the article: Creating A LightSwitch HTML Report Using ActiveReports (using Parameters and Intrinsic Data). That article shows how to use the Nuget packages to create the code for you. However, if you want more than one report you have to create the code to support the additional reports manually. This article will show the process…

Tags: Reporting,Printing

The Worlds First Free BYOD Retail Merchandising SAAS is a LightSwitch Application

The Worlds first Free BYOD retail merchandising Software as a Service is a LightSwitch application.

Skemaz™ has been designed from the ground up to take advantage of Microsoft's Azure cloud computing services to deliver a robust, scalable and intuitive merchandising software service…

Tags: Applications