July, 2011

Infragistics has released NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch ! They have created a great suite of custom controls, themes and custom shell extensions which give you a rich toolset to build code-free dashboards and engaging line of business applications...

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. Professional developers can extend the functionality of LightSwitch by creating extensions using Visual...

ComponentOne has released the OLAP for LightSwitch extension which lets you create interactive tables, charts, and reports similar to those found in Microsoft Excel Pivot tables and charts all without cubes or code! See more here: Business Intelligence...

As Jason Zander just announced , we released Visual Studio LightSwitch today, whoohooo! It’s been a long, fun road from Beta 1 and 2 to our final release and we are so excited to get this into your hands today! Visual Studio LightSwitch is the newest...

DevExpress has added LightSwitch support to their award winning reporting solution, XtraReports. This LightSwitch extension lets you create and display client-side reports right in your LightSwitch applications! Download XtraReports directly from DevExpress...

LightSwitch has a powerful search data screen template to allow you quickly create a search screen in your LightSwitch application. You can watch Beth’s How Do I video to get started: How Do I: Create a Search Screen in a LightSwitch Application...

We just released a couple more “How Do I” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center : #19 - How Do I: Set Default Values on Fields when Entering New Data? #20 - How Do I: Copy Data from One Row into a New Row? In these videos I show you how to write...

I have recently submitted a post on my blog that describes how to secure an application on the logic tier. This is part one of three posts that I'm planning that will each talk about aspects of security. Stay tuned for more! Nicole Haugen

First Floor Software has updated their Document Toolkit Extension for LightSwitch which provides an easy-to-use way to view your documents right in your LightSwitch applications. Documents of type XPS, and Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Excel...

LightSwitch provides built-in functionality quickly add or edit data in a grid or list.  Unfortunately this modal dialog is not customizable.  In more complex data entry scenarios, the built-in dialogs may not fulfill your customer's needs. ...

Check it out, this month’s CoDe Magazine is featuring Karol’s article on how to enhance your LightSwitch applications with custom controls: Using Custom Controls to Enhance LightSwitch Application UI Creating custom controls for LightSwitch is as simple...

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family and is launching on July 26th! Learn more about...