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I just wanted to let everyone here know that I’ve been having fun using the HTML Client Preview 2 to build a SharePoint app on top of Office 365 using LightSwitch over on my blog . Although you definitely can still host your apps on your own or in Azure , enabling SharePoint in your LightSwitch apps...

Check it out! We just released a couple new videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center’s “How Do I?” video section . These videos continue the Visual Studio 2012 series where we walk through the new features available in LightSwitch in VS 2012. How Do I: Perform Automatic Row-Level Filtering of Data...

Check it out, we just posted a video on Channel 9. In this interview, Joe Binder (Program Manager on the LightSwitch Team) gives us an early preview of where the team is headed with supporting HTML clients. He walks through the design experience as well as showing us how easy it is to customize styling...

If you haven’t noticed, Grid Logic has been working on a new version of the Office Integration Pack and has opened up source code for community contributions on CodePlex! http://officeintegration.codeplex.com/ Released last year, the Office Integration Pack is a LightSwitch extension that makes it easy...

A couple weeks ago I delivered a webcast on What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11. If you missed it, you can now watch it on demand: WMV Download | WMA | MP4 For more details on the new features I demonstrated check out the post on my blog. You can download the slides from here as well: "What...

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 as possible. After you install Visual Studio 11...

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 services over the web. Many enterprises today use...

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 as well as produce OData services from it’s middle...

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 and Michael chat about the community. Check out...

Drop-down lists in Visual Studio LightSwitch are represented by the Auto Complete Box control. This control allows the user to select from a list of values, either coming from another table or a static list of choices defined by a Choice List property. There’s a lot of nice things you can do with drop...

For the month of December I’ve been writing a series of articles aimed at the beginner developer getting up to speed with Visual Studio LightSwitch . Even though there’s a ton of information out there on building LightSwitch applications (especially on the LightSwitch Developer Center ), I wanted to...

Check it out, we released a new “How Do I” video on the LightSwitch Developer Center : How Do I: Handle Database Concurrency Issues? In a multi-user environment, when two users pull up the same record from the database and modify it, when the second user saves the data it raises a data conflict because...

Check it out! We just released a new How Do I video on the LightSwitch Developer Center . I created this one based on suggestions from you so I hope you like it! How Do I: Create Custom Search Screens in LightSwitch? In this video you will learn a couple techniques you can use when creating custom...

Now that the Visual Studio LightSwitch community is really growing I thought I’d start posting some of the cool articles, videos, samples and extensions I find each month. First off, here are the LightSwitch team “hangouts” where you can get training, ask questions, and interact with the LightSwitch...

I just updated the LightSwitch Deployment guide I wrote back in March for the RTM release of Visual Studio LightSwitch . This guide is meant for people who want to host three-tier LightSwitch applications on their own IIS servers. There was only a couple screen shot updates but now it should be clearer...

We’ve got a couple new “How Do I'” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center to check out: #21 - How Do I: Add Commands as Buttons and Links to Screens? #22 - How Do I: Show Multiple Columns in an Auto-Complete Dropdown Box? And if you missed them, you can access all the “How Do I” videos here:  ...

We just released a couple more “How Do I” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center : #19 - How Do I: Set Default Values on Fields when Entering New Data? #20 - How Do I: Copy Data from One Row into a New Row? In these videos I show you how to write a bit of code to set values on fields in a couple...

We just released two new “How Do I'” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center on how to use SharePoint data in your LightSwitch applications. Check them out: #17 - How Do I: Connect LightSwitch to SharePoint Data? #18 - How Do I: Save Data from Multiple Data Sources on the Same Screen? And if you missed...

We just released three new “How Do I'” videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center check them out: #14 - How Do I: Modify the Navigation of Screens in a LightSwitch Application? #15 - How Do I: Open a Screen After Saving Another Screen in a LightSwitch Application? #16 - How Do I: Connect LightSwitch...

Check it out, we just released a new “How Do I” video on the Developer Center that shows you how to deploy your Visual Studio LightSwitch application to the Azure cloud.   #13 - How Do I: Deploy a LightSwitch Application to Azure? This is a new video in the 13-part “How Do I” video series you can...

Check it out, we’ve got a new Samples page on the LightSwitch Developer Center showcasing LightSwitch samples from the Samples Gallery . Just head to http://msdn.com/lightswitch and then click on the Samples tab at the top: Here you can see the most popular, recent, and team samples quickly and easily...

A couple months ago MSDN released a new site for samples where product teams and the community can contribute code. We’ve been popping team samples up there as well, just look for the LightSwitch Team author: Download LightSwitch Team Samples Here’s a description of the ones we have up there so far:...

Well it’s been 10 days since we released Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 and we’ve been working really hard to get all of our samples, “How Do I” videos, articles and blog posts updated to reflect Beta 2 changes. Yes, that’s right. We’re going through all of our blog posts and updating them so folks...

In this video, I interview a couple of LightSwitch team members, Mike Droney (Tester) and Sheel Shah (PM), as they walk me through a real application that was built for our Admins in order to track hardware assets across the developer division. Mike and Sheel talk about the requirement gathering and...

CoDe Magazine just released it’s March/April issue and we’re featured! We’ve got some articles from the team that you should definitely check out. They are available online for free: Inside Visual Studio LightSwitch by John Rivard and Steve Anonsen In this article John and Steve explain the architecture...