March, 2012

We’ve just released the beta version of the LightSwitch Cosmopolitan Shell and Theme extension for VS11 Beta on VS Gallery ! We took your feedback and drew inspiration from the Silverlight Cosmopolitan theme in designing the extension. The shell and theme...

In Visual Studio 11 Beta, LightSwitch data services publish OData feeds and LightSwitch clients consume the OData feeds. This is an implementation change from LightSwitch 2011 where we used WCF RIA Services as the data protocol between client and server.

In this post we’ll take a look at the OData protocol itself and why it is valuable to LightSwitch applications. And we’ll cover a lot of ground related to producing and consuming OData feeds with LightSwitch, including the ability to consume LightSwitch OData feeds from non-LightSwitch clients.

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One of the exciting new features in Visual Studio 11 Beta is applications you create with LightSwitch will automatically expose Open Data Protocol (OData) services. For a good article covering how OData and LightSwitch work see Enhance Your LightSwitch...

As many of you know, the first version of LightSwitch came with several built-in business types, specifically Email Address , Money and Phone Number .  In the upcoming release of LightSwitch, two new business types have been added: the Percent and...

We’ve seen some questions in the forum about upgrading your current Visual Studio LightSwitch applications (LightSwitch V1) to Visual Studio 11 Beta (LightSwitch V2) so I thought I’d post some quick tips here on how to make the upgrade process a smooth...

We’ve released a new version of the LightSwitch Filter control extension that is compatible with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11. If you were using the previous version of this control and you want to upgrade your LightSwitch project to Visual Studio...

Matt Sampson has posted part 1 of a multi-part blog post this week that walks through attaching to a popular public transit OData Service, and making a few customizations to produce a LightSwitch application. The blog post is here - OData Apps In LightSwitch...

As John announced Wednesday , the next version of Visual Studio will include LightSwitch right in the box and there are a lot of awesome new features. My personal favorite is the Open Data Protocol (OData) services support. LightSwitch can now consume...

A lot of folks have been asking for this so we thought we would give a shout out to Progress DataDirect who released some ADO.NET EF providers for connecting to Oracle , Sybase and DB2 directly from Visual Studio LightSwitch . (Note that these providers...

Yesterday afternoon Jay Schmelzer and Beth Massi chatted with MVPs Andrew Brust and Michael Washington about LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 Beta . Jay and Andrew talk about what developers can look forward to in the next release of LightSwitch and Beth...

We've just uploaded the updated version of the Extensibility Toolkit to the MSDN Extensions Gallery: LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for VS11 The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries that target Visual Studio...

In the next version of LightSwitch , we’ve added support for OData services , both consuming external services as well as producing services from the LightSwitch middle-tier. The Open Data Protocol (OData) standardizes the way we communicate with data...