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Overview With a little homage to Hot Shots Part Deux we’ll drill in a bit deeper utilizing the ServerApplicationContext for creating Dashboard reports. Part 1 is here: Create Dashboard Reports with LightSwitch, WebAPI and ServerApplicationContext LightSwitch Productivity/Extendability disclaimer : As...

Overview Applications are creating and consuming more data than ever before. With so much data, how can your users quickly spot trends and get an overview of what’s important? Just as your car presents a dashboard indicating the top priority items, so can your application. Matt introduced the ServerApplicationContext...

The ServerApplicationContext API is a new feature in LightSwitch, available with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 or later, which allows you to create entirely new ways to call custom business logic on the LightSwitch Server, using the same rich API you're used to working with on the server tier. We previewed...

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 is the core of any modern application and a driving...

Although the team has focused on building the LightSwitch HTML client and SharePoint 2013 applications recently, supporting existing scenarios remains a top priority. We’ve tried to balance our new investments with solutions to roadblocks and pain points in Visual Studio 2012 that we’ve heard consistently...

Following the recent announcement of the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2 , we are excited to introduce a set of additional APIs that allow further control over the behavior and capabilities of a LightSwitch HTML-based application. You can download Preview 2 from the Developer Center . The APIs we...