March, 2013

Hi, I’m Chris Rummel, a tester on the LightSwitch team.  I work mostly on SharePoint features.  Brian has already gone over a lot of the benefits of SharePoint development with LightSwitch in his article A quick & easy LightSwitch app for...

Welcome to the last installment of the Signed-In app walkthrough! In case you missed the previous posts: Signed-In Part 1 – Introduction Signed-In Part 2 – Upcoming Events Screen Signed-In Part 3 – Guest List Screen Signed...

Welcome to the 4 th installment of the Signed-In app walkthrough! Here are the previous posts: Signed-In Part 1 – Introduction Signed-In Part 2 – Upcoming Events Screen Signed-In Part 3 – Guest List Screen We have implemented...

Welcome to part 3 of the Signed-In walkthrough! So far, we’ve got a mobile app that displays a list of upcoming events. It also allows you to add new events to the list. If you missed the previous posts you can read them here: Signed-In...

In the last post, we gave an overview of the Signed-In app we are going to build. We created a LightSwitch project and set up our data. In case you missed it: Signed-In Part 1 – Introduction Now, we’re ready to start designing the UI...

Before I show you all the wonderful things about LightSwitch , let me tell you a little story behind this post. I’m a college football fan. During the football season, I’d attend the game watching events organized by the local alumni association. At every...

Creating applications that run on a variety of form factors has become a necessity in an environment where applications live in the cloud and people bring their own devices to work, commonly referred as BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). The range of devices...

I'm a Program Manager on the SharePoint features for LightSwitch. I'll be honest... it's taken me a while to warm up to SharePoint development. Prior to this release, my only exposure to SharePoint was with SharePoint 2010 and earlier. Perhaps you can...

After releasing the preview of our HTML Client to a broader audience, it became pretty clear from your feedback that we had to work on the user experience of LightSwitch HTML applications. While not everybody is an expert in user experience design, it...

UPDATE 4/4/2013: We have released the HTML Client! See: Announcing the Release of the LightSwitch HTML Client! Today we are announcing a new updated preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client , which is now available as part of Visual Studio 2012 Update...