November, 2010

In prior posts I’ve covered the LightSwitch presentation tier and the logic tier . The presentation tier is primarily responsible for human interaction with the application using data from a LightSwitch logic tier. The logic tier comprises one or...

Drew Robbins , Technical Evangelist here at Microsoft, gave a great presentation at TechEd Europe earlier this month on LightSwitch that you can now watch on-demand. Check it out! Watch Building Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch Download...

A couple weeks ago I posted about how to create a custom search screen where you could specify exactly what field to search on. I also talked about some of the search options you can set on entities themselves. If you missed it: Creating a Custom Search...

One of the more common scenarios that we’ve encountered in business applications are data creation screens that involve related data. For example, an end user may be creating a new order record that requires the selection of a customer. In LightSwitch...

Suppose you have two tables participating in a 1:many relationship, like Regions and Territories from the Northwind sample database : Region Column Name Type RegionID integer RegionDescription string Territory Column Name Type TerritoryID integer TerritoryDescription...

While I was on my speaking trip in Europe a couple folks asked me how they could create their own search screen instead of using the built-in search functionality that LightSwitch provides. Basically they wanted the search to come up blank until a user...

Have a long commute to work or want something to watch on your lunch break? Catch the team in these audio and video interviews! Podcasts - CodeCast Episode 88: LightSwitch for .NET Developers with Jay Schmelzer MSDN Radio: Visual Studio LightSwitch...