The LightSwitch team has released a General Distribution Release (GDR) to resolve an issue encountered when publishing to SQL Azure. In some cases, customers have reported a “SQLServer version not supported” exception when publishing a database to SQL...

This morning the LightSwitch Team released samples in both Visual Basic and C# that contain the code for the recently released Metro Theme for Visual Studio LightSwitch . For more information on creating extensions for Visual Studio LightSwitch, see...

Last night the LightSwitch Team released the Metro Theme for Visual Studio LightSwitch on the Visual Studio Gallery. You can also download it directly from the Extension Manager inside Visual Studio LightSwitch . Download the Metro Theme for Visual Studio...

Concurrency issues are common in multi-user applications that have a database on the backend. The good news is that LightSwitch makes concurrency very easy to handle by providing two different mechanisms: When a conflict is detected, a “Data...

Andrew Brust from Blue Badge Insights has just published a great series of whitepapers on Visual Studio LightSwitch aimed at educating you on what LightSwitch is and what it can do for you. Check out the PDFs below. What is LightSwitch? This is the first...

New WPI feeds for Visual Studio LightSwitch have been added to allow for optional installation of SQL Express.

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We just launched a new feedback site called UserVoice that makes it easy for you to tell us what you want to see in the next versions of Visual Studio LightSwitch . It gathers and sorts ideas by popularity, giving us an immediate view of the most requested...

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...

I have recently submitted a blog post called " How To: Using the Created method to Set Default Property Values ". Check it out over on my blog . ~Nicole Haugen

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...

The Visual Studio LightSwitch RTM Training Kit is now live! The LightSwitch Training Kit contains demos and labs to help you learn to use and extend LightSwitch. The introductory materials walk you through the Visual Studio LightSwitch product. By following...

Infragistics has released NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch ! They have created a great suite of custom controls, themes and custom shell extensions which give you a rich toolset to build code-free dashboards and engaging line of business applications...

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. Professional developers can extend the functionality of LightSwitch by creating extensions using Visual...

ComponentOne has released the OLAP for LightSwitch extension which lets you create interactive tables, charts, and reports similar to those found in Microsoft Excel Pivot tables and charts all without cubes or code! See more here: Business Intelligence...

As Jason Zander just announced , we released Visual Studio LightSwitch today, whoohooo! It’s been a long, fun road from Beta 1 and 2 to our final release and we are so excited to get this into your hands today! Visual Studio LightSwitch is the newest...

DevExpress has added LightSwitch support to their award winning reporting solution, XtraReports. This LightSwitch extension lets you create and display client-side reports right in your LightSwitch applications! Download XtraReports directly from DevExpress...

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...

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...

I have recently submitted a post on my blog that describes how to secure an application on the logic tier. This is part one of three posts that I'm planning that will each talk about aspects of security. Stay tuned for more! Nicole Haugen

First Floor Software has updated their Document Toolkit Extension for LightSwitch which provides an easy-to-use way to view your documents right in your LightSwitch applications. Documents of type XPS, and Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Excel...

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. ...

Check it out, this month’s CoDe Magazine is featuring Karol’s article on how to enhance your LightSwitch applications with custom controls: Using Custom Controls to Enhance LightSwitch Application UI Creating custom controls for LightSwitch is as simple...

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family and is launching on July 26th! Learn more about...

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...

The most common feedback that we’ve heard about the Excel Import extension is that it doesn’t work for web applications. Since we can’t access Excel from a web application, we’ve updated the extension to import data from CSV files...