Michael Washington's Blog, page 20
December 28, 2012
Using Promises In Visual Studio LightSwitch
To create responsive HTML applications (using JavaScript) you will need to use asynchronous calls to communicate with external resources. While you can make requests synchronously, it is a bad practice because it locks up the web browser…
December 16, 2012
Retrieving The Current User In The LightSwitch HTML Client
In the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client, extra steps are required to determine who the currently logged in user is.
Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)December 12, 2012
Writing JavaScript That Implements The Binding Pattern In Visual Studio LightSwitch
In the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2, the binding pattern has several advantages in that it allows you to create large robust and well structured applications. You may have heard about the binding pattern in Silverlight and WPF (known as MVVM). The key component is the INotifyPropertyChanged interface that raises an event when anything changes a property that implements the interface…
Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)December 8, 2012
Implementing The Wijmo Radial Gauge In The LightSwitch HTML Client
ComponentOne provides a set of free and commercial controls called Wijmo that can be consumed in the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client…
Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)December 2, 2012
Allowing Users To Self Register In Your LightSwitch Website
Creating a LightSwitch website and setting security is easy. However, you must set up all your users manually. In some cases you want to allow users to self-register…
Tags: HTML Client (Preview Version)
