We’ve released the source code for the Cosmopolitan shell and theme , allowing you use the default LightSwitch 2012 shell and theme as starting points for your own custom shells and themes. You can download the source here . Custom LightSwitch shells...

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...

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...

With the release of the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2 , I’d like to take this opportunity to showcase the simple steps to get an HTML client up and running. The holiday season is now upon us. In this tutorial, we will create a simple HTML client...

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...

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...

We are pleased to announce an updated preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client ! The overly positive feedback we received following our first preview last June for building HTML5-based, touch-optimized mobile business applications has truly been energizing...

Friday, John Stallo, Lead Program Manager of the LightSwitch team, did a session at //BUILD that is now available online. We’re very excited about the LightSwitch HTML Client and the direction we’re taking the product. Check out John’s presentation to...

As you probably heard, yesterday was the online launch event for the release of Visual Studio 2012! If you missed the live keynotes you can watch them on demand on the Visual Studio 2012 Launch site. There are also a ton of recordings available on the...

The recent release of LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2012 included some updates around publishing to Azure.  Most importantly, we have made it even easier to publish your LightSwitch applications to Azure Web Sites by improving the publish wizard...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Yesterday, we gave an overview of the Course Manager sample and walked through some scenarios from end-user’s perspective . If you missed it: Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 1 – Introduction We are now ready to start “reverse-engineering” and learning...

When we released Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 last year, we published a sample project called “Course Manager.” We also wrote a series of tutorials based on the sample. With the release of Visual Studio 2012, it is a good time to update the Course Manager...

We are extremely excited that Visual Studio 2012 has released to the web today! As of this morning, everyone can download the final release of Visual Studio 2012 which includes the latest version of LightSwitch! MSDN Subscribers can download the bits...

LightSwitch gives us the ability to import data from numerous sources. This data can then be shown to the end user in an editable grid by simply creating editable grid screens based off that data. The column names of the grid will correspond to the field...

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...

Matt Sampson has a new blog today that covers how to find your OData Services that LightSwitch produces, and then how to create a custom Silverlight control for your LightSwitch screens that easily enables you to find these OData Services. Check out...

Many problems can occur in applications when multiple users are allowed to edit the same record at the same time. Some simple applications take a “last edit wins” approach, where the last person to save their changes gets their changes applied...

Now that LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 supports the ability to consume OData feeds , there are a wide variety of feeds that can be used to build interesting LightSwitch applications, ranging from NetFlix to Dynamics CRM. However, it’s important...

UPDATE December 6th, 2012: With the release of HTML Client Preview 2 some of the code in this article may not work correctly. For updated information please see: Custom Controls and Data Binding in the LightSwitch HTML Client ---- With the HTML Client...

We are pleased to announce that the Microsoft LightSwitch HTML Client Preview for Visual Studio 2012 is now available for download! UPDATE 6/28: Public Download: Microsoft LightSwitch HTML Client Preview for Visual Studio 2012 The preview provides...

When we originally announced Visual Studio LightSwitch, we introduced a series of blog posts that went under the covers to dive into the anatomy of a LightSwitch application . At that time, this encompassed the end to end solution across the Silverlight...