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If you have been playing with the new HTML client, you will know that LightSwitch provides a built-in screen template for creating data. It allows user to input data via a modal dialog. In some scenarios, however, we’d much prefer to guide the user via a step-by-step wizard-like dialog. In this article...

The original idea of this blog post was to simply provide you with a tutorial on how to create a many-to-many control for your HTML app, using the built-in controls and some glue code to hook up the correct logic. Andy wrote a similar post for the Silverlight client and we later shipped a control as...

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-In Part 4 – Authentication and Branding...

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 Part 1 – Introduction Signed-In Part 2 –...

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. Create the First Screen Right click on HTMLClient...

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 was extended from desktops to smartphones and tablets...

Custom JavaScript controls allow you to create user experiences that are tailored to specific use cases and business needs. Given the wealth of code samples, control frameworks, and partner control offerings available today, we wanted to ensure that existing controls could be used as-is within the LightSwitch...

Hello LightSwitchers! I hope you’re all having fun and building cool stuff with RTM. In case you missed it, here are the previous posts: Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 2 – Setting up Data Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 3 – User Permissions &...

This week I’ve been writing a series of articles on building the Course Manager Sample, if you missed them: Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 2 – Setting up Data Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 3 – User Permissions &...

Welcome to part 4 of the Course Manager series! If you missed the previous posts you can read them here: Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 2 – Setting up Data Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 3 – User Permissions & Admin...

Welcome to part 3 of the Course Manager series! If you missed the previous posts you can read them here: Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 2 – Setting up Data In Part 2, we created tables, relationships, queries, and learned some useful data customizations...

Beth and I touched on a few of the new features of the upcoming HTML client for LightSwitch in our Channel 9 video chat last week , but I thought it’d be worthwhile to cover each topic in more detail. Today I’ll walk through the application user model and screen development, then follow-up...

Note: This article applies to LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (LightSwitch V2) It’s common for developers to add static images and text to their screens to help guide their users through the application. Although you can easily add images that come a database to your screens, up till now, adding...

A common request that the LightSwitch team receives is to provide a control to deal with many-to-many relationships (ex. the relationship between Categories and Blog Posts). One of the more common ways to deal with this is by displaying a list of checkboxes or a tree of checkboxes. We've just released...

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...

Hello LightSwitchers! I hope you’re all having fun and building cool stuff with RTM. I apologize for the delay of this conclusion of the Course Manager series. In case you missed it, here are the previous posts: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Setting up data Part 3: User permissions & admin screens...

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...

LightSwitch provides built-in functionality quickly add or edit data in a grid or list.  Unfortunately this modal dialog is not customizable.  In more complex data entry scenarios, the built-in dialogs may not fulfill your customer's needs.  There are a couple of options in this situation...

The screen designer in Visual Studio isn’t a typical forms design tool. We strove to make it simple to get started using some predefined templates. However, it’s also pretty easy to customize the output of those templates to get exactly the screen you want. In this post, I’m going to...

NOTE: This article was written against Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 but has been updated for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012. To view the latest version click here . In Course Manager Sample Part 3 , we’ve set up a Desktop application with Windows authentication. We’ve created some...

Note: This article has been updated for Beta 2 on 3/17/2011 LightSwitch, by default, intelligently generates UI based on the shape of an entity. For example, adding an Employee entity to a screen might generate a TextBox for Employee.Name , a DatePicker for Employee.Birthdate , an Auto-Complete Box for...