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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...

In prior posts I’ve covered the LightSwitch presentation tier and the logic tier . The presentation tier is primarily responsible for human interaction with the application using data from a LightSwitch logic tier. The logic tier comprises one or more LightSwitch data services whose primary job...

The LightSwitch running application consist of three tiers—presentation, logic, and data storage. In the prior post we covered the presentation tier . In this post we will take a deeper look at the logic tier. Just as a recap, the presentation tier is a Silverlight client application that can...

Charles just posted a deep-dive Channel 9 interview with the Architects of Visual Studio LightSwitch, check it out: Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch “In this video we meet the architects behind LightSwitch, Steve Anonsen and John Rivard, focusing on how LightSwitch is designed and what...

We'll continue our exploration of the Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application by examining the presentation tier-also known as the client. A LightSwitch 1.0 client is a Silverlight 4.0 application. The client can run either as a Windows desktop application or hosted in a browser. The Windows desktop mode...

The announcement of Visual Studio LightSwitch this week has generated a lot of discussion, and as expected a number of questions about "what is LightSwitch really building under the covers?". To help shed some light on that (sorry, could resist) we're putting together a blog series that takes a more...