June, 2011

The screen designer in Visual Studio isn’t a typical forms design tool. We strove to make it simple to get started using some predefined templates. However, it’s also pretty easy to customize the output of those templates to get exactly the...

The most common feedback that we’ve heard about the Excel Import extension is that it doesn’t work for web applications. Since we can’t access Excel from a web application, we’ve updated the extension to import data from CSV files...

Check it out, we just released a new “How Do I” video on the Developer Center that shows you how to deploy your Visual Studio LightSwitch application to the Azure cloud.   #13 - How Do I: Deploy a LightSwitch Application to Azure? This is a new video...

Check it out, we’ve got a new Samples page on the LightSwitch Developer Center showcasing LightSwitch samples from the Samples Gallery . Just head to http://msdn.com/lightswitch and then click on the Samples tab at the top: Here you can see the most popular...

We just released two new “How Do I'” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center on how to use SharePoint data in your LightSwitch applications. Check them out: #17 - How Do I: Connect LightSwitch to SharePoint Data? #18 - How Do I: Save Data from Multiple...

We just released three new “How Do I'” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center check them out: #14 - How Do I: Modify the Navigation of Screens in a LightSwitch Application? #15 - How Do I: Open a Screen After Saving Another Screen in a LightSwitch...