August, 2011

This morning the LightSwitch Team released samples in both Visual Basic and C# that contain the code for the recently released Metro Theme for Visual Studio LightSwitch . For more information on creating extensions for Visual Studio LightSwitch, see...

Last night the LightSwitch Team released the Metro Theme for Visual Studio LightSwitch on the Visual Studio Gallery. You can also download it directly from the Extension Manager inside Visual Studio LightSwitch . Download the Metro Theme for Visual Studio...

Concurrency issues are common in multi-user applications that have a database on the backend. The good news is that LightSwitch makes concurrency very easy to handle by providing two different mechanisms: When a conflict is detected, a “Data...

Andrew Brust from Blue Badge Insights has just published a great series of whitepapers on Visual Studio LightSwitch aimed at educating you on what LightSwitch is and what it can do for you. Check out the PDFs below. What is LightSwitch? This is the first...

New WPI feeds for Visual Studio LightSwitch have been added to allow for optional installation of SQL Express.

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We just launched a new feedback site called UserVoice that makes it easy for you to tell us what you want to see in the next versions of Visual Studio LightSwitch . It gathers and sorts ideas by popularity, giving us an immediate view of the most requested...

I just updated the LightSwitch Deployment guide I wrote back in March for the RTM release of Visual Studio LightSwitch . This guide is meant for people who want to host three-tier LightSwitch applications on their own IIS servers. There was only a couple...

I have recently submitted a blog post called " How To: Using the Created method to Set Default Property Values ". Check it out over on my blog . ~Nicole Haugen

We’ve got a couple new “How Do I'” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center to check out: #21 - How Do I: Add Commands as Buttons and Links to Screens? #22 - How Do I: Show Multiple Columns in an Auto-Complete Dropdown Box? And if you missed them, you...

The Visual Studio LightSwitch RTM Training Kit is now live! The LightSwitch Training Kit contains demos and labs to help you learn to use and extend LightSwitch. The introductory materials walk you through the Visual Studio LightSwitch product. By following...