April, 2011

In Course Manager Sample Part 3 , we’ve set up a Desktop application with Windows authentication. We’ve created some “raw data” screens and wrote permission logic. In this post, we will dive into the main workflows of Course Manager. We will be covering...

Matt Sampson's blog has a post today about exporting saved data to a Word Mailing Labels document, and how to display a "Save As File" Dialog to allow the user to select where the file should be stored. Code samples are also posted on the code gallery...

In Course Manager Sample Part 2 – Setting up Data , we created tables, relationships, queries, and learned some useful data customizations. Now we’re ready to build screens. One of the first things I usually like to do (as a LightSwitch developer) is...

A couple months ago MSDN released a new site for samples where product teams and the community can contribute code. We’ve been popping team samples up there as well, just look for the LightSwitch Team author: Download LightSwitch Team Samples Here’s a...

This article presents a scenario at a sales team that shows the benefit of using composed and scalar queries. It presents a detailed walkthrough for creating composed and scalar queries in LightSwitch, and creating screens to display the query results...

One of the more common requests from our customers is the ability to import data into LightSwitch applications. While this can be done programmatically, it’s pretty common to store data in Excel documents. This tutorial will walk through using an...

Last week, we gave an overview of the Course Manager sample and walked through some scenarios from end-user’s perspective. We are now ready to start “reverse-engineering” and learn how to build Course Manager. We will start our exploration by examining...

In a business application there is often a need to roll-up data and display it in a concise format.  This allows decision makers the ability to analyze the state of the business and make a decision quickly and correctly.  This roll-up may retrieve...

This article introduces the concept of permission elevation in LightSwitch. It presents a scenario at a shipping department of a store to show the need for elevation of privileges. Code samples to add, remove and control the scope of elevation are included...

With the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2, the team also published a sample project called “Course Manager.” This sample is designed for the Office of Registrar of a fictional art school. It tracks students, instructors, courses...

On March 15th we released the English and German editions of LightSwitch Beta 2 . We’re happy to announce that the Japanese edition is now available! Download Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 Japanese Edition And please read the Readme for important information...