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The Visual Studio Live! interview

At the recent Visual Studio Live I was interviewed by Visual Studio Magazine…

Connecting To SignalR With LightSwitch HTML Client

The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client will connect to any SignalR service, allowing you to create state of the art applications…

Book Excerpt: LightSwitch in Action

LightSwitch in Action

By Dan Beall and Greg Lutz

You tell LightSwitch what you want the data to look like and what you want the interface to do and it wires it all up and gives you a finished, professional-grade application. LightSwitch is, at its essence, a forms-over-data application. You describe the data store and design the forms and it does all the plumbing required to make them work together. This article, based on chapter 1 of LightSwitch in Action , explains why and how you would want to use LightSwitch…

 

Tags: Book Excerpts

I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live!, March 25-29 in Las Vegas, NV

I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live!, March 25-29 in Las Vegas, NV http://bit.ly/VLSPK32Reg.  Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, Visual Studio Live! provides you with immediately usable IT education that will keep you relevant in the workforce…

An End-To-End Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML5 Application

 

In this article we will create an end-to-end HTML application in Visual Studio LightSwitch. The purpose is to demonstrate how LightSwitch allows you to create professional business applications that would take a developer days to create. With LightSwitch you can create such applications in under an hour…

Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)

Full Control LightSwitch (ServerApplicationContext And Generic File Handlers And Ajax Calls)

You can implement any functionality you need with the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client when you use ServerApplicationContext, Generic File Handlers (.ashx files), and JQuery Ajax calls…

Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)

Automatic Save (And Refresh)

At the time of this writing, the LightSwitch HTML Client is still in preview. We can expect additional functionality in the future release. For now, any updates to the data require the user to explicitly press the save button. This is not optimal in all situations.…

Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)

Saving Data In The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Including Automatic Saves)

As covered in the article, The LightSwitch HTML Client: An Architectural Overview (Stephen Provine), the LightSwitch HTML Client uses SDI (Single Document Interface) rather than MDI (Multiple Document Interface). Essentially you now have a single data workspace in the LightSwitch HTML Client application, instead of multiple data workspaces that you have with the LightSwitch Silverlight Client. This provides the LightSwitch HTML Client an advantage in that you can now easily create workflows that separate a task among multiple screens or tabs…

Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)

Creating A Desktop Experience Using Wijmo Grid In LightSwitch HTML Client

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Currently the LightSwitch HTML Client is in preview and creates HTML pages for mobile devices. However, it can be used to create non-mobile web pages using custom JavaScript controls. For example, A data grid is not that useful in a mobile application (because it is hard to navigate with fingers on a touch device), but it is a normal part of the non-mobile desktop experience.

In this example, we will incorporate the Wijmo Grid Control into Visual Studio LightSwitch...

Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)

Creating ASP.NET Web Forms CRUD Pages Using ServerApplicationContext

The LightSwitch HTML Client (currently in preview) brings a new feature called ServerApplicationContext. Here is an example that uses a ASP.NET Web Form page to create CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete)…

Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)