March, 2011

Well it’s been 10 days since we released Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 and we’ve been working really hard to get all of our samples, “How Do I” videos, articles and blog posts updated to reflect Beta 2 changes. Yes, that’s right. We’re going through...

One of the many features introduced in Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 is the ability to publish your app directly to Windows Azure with storage in SQL Azure. We have condensed many steps one would typically have to go through to deploy an application...

In this video, I interview a couple of LightSwitch team members, Mike Droney (Tester) and Sheel Shah (PM), as they walk me through a real application that was built for our Admins in order to track hardware assets across the developer division. Mike and...

We just released LightSwitch Beta 2 to the general public so now anyone can download and use LightSwitch Beta 2! Download Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2! Please see Tuesday’s post that includes important installation notes . Also be sure...

UPDATE 7/27/2011 - The Beta 2 Cookbook is now out of date as we have released RTM. Please see Extending LightSwitch on the Developer Center for documentation and samples on using the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit. ----- One of the big features...

We are extremely happy to announce the release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ Beta 2! MSDN subscribers can access LightSwitch Beta 2 today and public availability will be Thursday, March 17 th . Please see Jason Zander’s...

We want to inform you that if you’re working with the LightSwitch Beta 1, do not install the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) as these releases are not compatible. If you want to install LightSwitch Beta 1 into Visual Studio 2010 Pro or Ultimate...