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Sorting data across relationships is often required when building applications within LightSwitch.  For example, suppose you are building a LightSwitch application that attaches to the Category and Product tables from the Northwind database. You can probably imagine applications in which you would...

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...

This post describes how to query data in LightSwitch using code and how to determine where that query code is executing. It doesn’t describe how to model a query in the designer or how to write query interception code or bind a query to a screen. If you are new to queries in LightSwitch, I suggest you...

LightSwitch has a powerful search data screen template to allow you quickly create a search screen in your LightSwitch application. You can watch Beth’s How Do I video to get started: How Do I: Create a Search Screen in a LightSwitch Application? In this blog, I am going to answer one frequently...

This article presents a scenario at a sales team that shows the benefit of using composed and scalar queries. It presents a detailed walkthrough for creating composed and scalar queries in LightSwitch, and creating screens to display the query results. Composed query is a query that operates on the results...

Suppose you have two tables participating in a 1:many relationship, like Regions and Territories from the Northwind sample database : Region Column Name Type RegionID integer RegionDescription string Territory Column Name Type TerritoryID integer TerritoryDescription string RegionID integer The task...