August, 2010

We’re back at it again with another podcast. In this one, Jay goes beyond just explaining what LightSwitch can do and discusses the more technical side of how LightSwitch actually works under the covers. Check it out: Pluralcast 23 : Visual Studio LightSwitch...

Introduction In any application that accepts user input and stores it in a data store, the data needs to be validated. When it comes to relational databases, most of them today provide some form of validation. This includes constraints, data formatting...

Tune in on Monday, August 30, 2010 from 9:00-9:30 AM Pacific Time for MSDN Radio. This week they’ll be interviewing LightSwich team members! It’s your chance to call in and ask us questions about LightSwitch. About MSDN Radio: “MSDN Radio is a weekly...

The LightSwitch running application consist of three tiers—presentation, logic, and data storage. In the prior post we covered the presentation tier . In this post we will take a deeper look at the logic tier. Just as a recap, the presentation...

Charles just posted a deep-dive Channel 9 interview with the Architects of Visual Studio LightSwitch, check it out: Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch “In this video we meet the architects behind LightSwitch, Steve Anonsen and John Rivard...

We’ve just released the public Beta 1 of Visual Studio LightSwitch ! Yay! Check out Jason Zander’s post LightSwitch Beta1 Now Available, Building Your First App . To get started, visit the LightSwitch Developer Center : Here you can access the download...

We just released Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 to MSDN subscribers. Public availability will be this Monday, August 23rd but if you are an MSDN subscriber visit your subscriptions page to get access to the download now. Otherwise check the the LightSwitch...

In this episode of CodeCast , co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss Microsoft’s new Visual Studio LightSwitch product with the team’s group program manager Jay Schmelzer. Jay discusses in-depth technical details and insights into LightSwitch...

Check it out, we just posted another Channel 9 video. In this one we go a little deeper into how to customize screens and extend LightSwitch. We also talk a little bit about the architecture on which LightSwitch applications are built: In this interview...

We'll continue our exploration of the Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application by examining the presentation tier-also known as the client. A LightSwitch 1.0 client is a Silverlight 4.0 application. The client can run either as a Windows desktop application...

The announcement of Visual Studio LightSwitch this week has generated a lot of discussion, and as expected a number of questions about "what is LightSwitch really building under the covers?". To help shed some light on that (sorry, couldn't resist) we...

Welcome to the Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog! This is where LightSwitch team members will be posting information about a new product we’re building here at Microsoft geared for business application developers. My name is Jay Schmelzer and...

This is where members of the LightSwitch team will be posting information about a new, exciting product we're building here at Microsoft aimed at business application developers. LightSwitch is the simplest way to create data-centric business applications...