Since we released the latest version of the LightSwitch HTML Client a couple weeks ago, the team has been cranking out some awesome content on the LightSwitch Team blog around the new capabilities as well as some good How-To’s. And there’s a lot more coming! If you’re just getting started with the HTML...

One of the many great benefits of building HTML clients with LightSwitch is that you can easily change the theme of your apps with standard CSS. When you install the HTML Client Preview 2 you get two themes to choose from, a dark theme (the default in Preview 2) and a light theme. However you can completely...

With LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (a.k.a LightSwitch V2) your server projects target the .NET Framework 4.0. This was a conscious decision on the team’s part in order to allow V2 applications to be deployed to the same servers running V1 applications with no fuss. Additionally the LightSwitch runtime...

I’ve dabbled in SharePoint 2010 development in the past by using Visual Studio. In fact, I wrote a fair share of articles and samples about it. However I’ve been slacking when it comes to really learning the new app model in SharePoint 2013 . I’ve got a good understanding of the architecture...

I was doing some content analysis this morning for this blog and the LightSwitch team blog and I thought it would be fun to list off the most viewed LightSwitch team articles of 2012. Then I thought it would probably be helpful to also look at the most popular “ How Do I” videos on the Developer Center...

Wow! What a great trip! I got back late last week from an amazing 10-day tour through eastern Canada (and Vermont) spreading the LightSwitch love. Thanks to all the user group leaders, conference organizers, and friends who made this trip possible. I was happy to see the great turnout at all the events...

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch . If you missed those rollups you can check them all out here: LightSwitch Community & Content Rollups . I realize I’m a couple days late for this...

Check it out! We just released a couple new videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center’s “How Do I?” video section . These videos continue the Visual Studio 2012 series where I walk through the new features available in LightSwitch in VS 2012. How Do I: Perform Automatic Row-Level Filtering of Data?...

If you haven’t heard, we released the HTML Client Preview 2 last week which adds the ability to create HTML5/JavaScript based clients to your LightSwitch solutions. I thought it would be a good exercise to add an HTML companion application to my Contoso Construction sample to demonstrate just how quickly...

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria . I’ve spoken at DevReach before and it’s always a great conference organized by Telerik . What I like most about it is that there tends to be more women at this conference than I am used to seeing in the states -- very...

If you haven’t heard, the new Office & SharePoint 2013 Developer Preview has a brand new development model that should make it a lot easier and flexible to build consumer and enterprise applications running within Office & SharePoint. So I’ve been sitting down with some teammates...

If you haven’t heard, the new Office & SharePoint 2013 Developer Preview has a brand new development model that should make it a lot easier and flexible to build consumer and enterprise applications running within Office & SharePoint. Based on web technologies like HTML5, XML, CSS3, JavaScript...

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch . If you missed those rollups you can check them all out here: LightSwitch Community & Content Rollups . Visual Studio 2012 Released! The big news...

Check it out! We’ve got three brand new LightSwitch “How Do I” videos available on the LightSwitch Developer Center ! How Do I: Get Started with the LightSwitch Starter Kits? In this video, see how you can get a jump start building applications using the LightSwitch Starter Kits. Starter Kits are project...

Awesome! This morning we released Visual Studio 2012 which has a ton of new LightSwitch enhancements like the ability to access data from any OData source as well as create OData services , a new theme , and a whole lot more . For a good rollup of content to get you up to speed on all our new features...

Welcome to Part 6 of the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 series ! In parts 1 thru 5 we built an Address Book application and learned all about the major building blocks of a Visual Studio LightSwitch application -- entities, relationships, screens, queries and user permissions. If you missed...

NOTE: This is an update of an article written against Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 that has been updated for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012. To view the original version click here . Welcome to Part 5 of the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 series ! In parts 1 thru 4 we learned about...

NOTE: This is an update of an article written against Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 that has been updated for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012. To view the original version click here . Welcome to Part 4 of the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 series ! In part 1, 2 and 3 we learned about...

NOTE: This is an update of an article written against Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 that has been updated for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012. To view the original version click here . Welcome to Part 3 of the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 series ! In part 1 and part 2 we learned...

NOTE: This is an update of an article written against Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 that has been updated for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012. To view the original version click here . Welcome to Part 2 of the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 series ! In the last post we learned about...

NOTE: This is an update of an article written against Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 that has been updated for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012. To view the original version click here . Welcome to Part 1 of the Beginning LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 series ! To get things started, we’re...

Last week while I was up in Redmond I met up with Robert Green, the host of the Visual Studio Toolbox show on Channel 9 , to show off some of the new features in LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 like OData support, the new Cosmo shell, row level security, and more. I also show off some of the HTML client...

The team has been cranking out a lot of great content over on the LightSwitch Team blog and a lot of that stuff is related to all the new features in Visual Studio 2012. The Release Candidate (RC) has been available since late May. So if you haven’t done so already, I encourage you to download and play...

Just announced on the LightSwitch Team Blog , the HTML Client Preview is now available for MSDN subscribers and will be available to the rest of the world on Thursday. Check out the LightSwitch Developer Center for the download, videos and articles: Microsoft LightSwitch HTML Client Preview for...

I just updated my LightSwitch IIS Deployment Enhancements in Visual Studio 2012 post to coordinate with the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate and the Windows Azure SDK for .NET . LightSwitch has a new publishing wizard in the new Azure SDK which makes it much easier to publish to Azure Cloud Services...