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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Matt Sampson has a blog post this week that shows how you can import data into a LightSwitch web application. The blog post is here . The MSDN Code Gallery sample is here . Enjoy! -Matt Sampson

I’ve been writing a series of articles on the Course Manager Sample , if you missed them: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Setting up data Part 3: User permissions & admin screens Part 4: Implementing the workflow In Part 4 , we identified the main workflow...

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...

Matt Sampson's blog has a post today about exporting saved data to a Word Mailing Labels document, and how to display a "Save As File" Dialog to allow the user to select where the file should be stored. Code samples are also posted on the code gallery...

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 2 – Setting up Data , we created tables, relationships...

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...

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...

One of the more common requests from our customers is the ability to import data into LightSwitch applications. While this can be done programmatically, it’s pretty common to store data in Excel documents. This tutorial will walk through using an...

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 . Last week, we gave an overview of the Course Manager sample and walked through...

In a business application there is often a need to roll-up data and display it in a concise format.  This allows decision makers the ability to analyze the state of the business and make a decision quickly and correctly.  This roll-up may retrieve...

This article introduces the concept of permission elevation in LightSwitch. It presents a scenario at a shipping department of a store to show the need for elevation of privileges. Code samples to add, remove and control the scope of elevation are included...

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 . With the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2, the team also published...

On March 15th we released the English and German editions of LightSwitch Beta 2 . We’re happy to announce that the Japanese edition is now available! Download Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 Japanese Edition And please read the Readme for important information...

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...

UPDATE: These steps have been simplified with the release of Visual Studio 2012. Please see: Publishing LightSwitch Apps to Azure with Visual Studio 2012 -------------------------- One of the many features introduced in Visual Studio LightSwitch...

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...

We just released LightSwitch Beta 2 to the general public so now anyone can download and use LightSwitch Beta 2! Download Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2! Please see Tuesday’s post that includes important installation notes . Also be sure...

UPDATE 7/27/2011 - The Beta 2 Cookbook is now out of date as we have released RTM. Please see Extending LightSwitch on the Developer Center for documentation and samples on using the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit. ----- One of the big features...

We are extremely happy to announce the release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ Beta 2! MSDN subscribers can access LightSwitch Beta 2 today and public availability will be Thursday, March 17 th . Please see Jason Zander’s...

We want to inform you that if you’re working with the LightSwitch Beta 1, do not install the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) as these releases are not compatible. If you want to install LightSwitch Beta 1 into Visual Studio 2010 Pro or Ultimate...