April, 2012

Eric Erhardt has posted part 2 in his series on using stored procedures in LightSwitch. In the second part, he describes how you can use Visual Studio LightSwitch to update database records using stored procedures.  A lot of database administrators...

The first release of Visual Studio LightSwitch (LightSwitch V1) allows users to define relationships between tables within the intrinsic/built-in data source (ApplicationData). When attaching to existing data sources, LightSwitch will import the relationships...

Eric Erhardt has posted part 1 of a series on using stored procedures in LightSwitch.  In the first part, he describes how you can execute a stored procedure when a user clicks a button on your LightSwitch screen. The blog post is here – Executing...

Note: This article applies to LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (LightSwitch V2) When building a LightSwitch application, organizing the content is an important aspect of screen design.  The layout system in LightSwitch has allowed you to use columns...

It is common for line of business applications to have scenarios which require row level security (RLS). For example a LightSwitch developer creates an application that stores Employee information such as name and address along with a relationship to...

Note: This article applies to LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (LightSwitch V2) One of the more popular topics about LightSwitch has been around formatting numeric data. This is a very common requirement in business applications, which is why there...

Matt Sampson has posted part 2 of a multi-part blog post this week that continues the walkthrough of creating an application around the popular public transit CommuterApi OData Service. This post focuses on making some enhancements to the application...

In Visual Studio 11 Beta, LightSwitch has introduced the ability to use Active Directory security groups to control access to the application. In the first release of LightSwitch, it was only possible to control access by registering each individual Windows...