The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

joe Rush — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:02:42 GMT

This sounded so exciting .... Until the statement that seems mandatory for any Microsoft RAD tool -- "stored procedures are not supported". And yes, I know I can write a custom domain service to expose stored procedures. But, by not including stored procedures as a base capability, this turns into another tool/platform that is viewed a a "toy" or prototype tool. The perception is that if Microsoft *still* doesn't realize that stored procedures are the basis for enterprise applications, then what other features are missing that would prevent light switch applications from being sustainable in a production environment?

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

Ed Erickson — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:07:49 GMT

No support for Access accdb?

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

Wow! — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:04:01 GMT

Very cool...indeed... Interesting how when one explores EF 4.0 the first thing they think about is How do I get more form automation? With EF 4.0 we can generate DataSources which then allow us to drag the table as a DataGrid or Detail form type in WPF. Looks like Lightswitch bridges that gap, in that it's all built in. Of course the big question for Developers is, how to we hook up to existing database tables, this post answered that question.

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

Steve Hoag — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:14:34 GMT

I assume you are referring to the Integer types? The table is still correct, however in the IDE Int16, Int32 and Int64 now map to the friendly names Short Integer, Integer, and Long Integer.

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

jkrishnaswamy — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:48:04 GMT

I assume that some information on this page is not updated. Table 2 for example is not the same in the help file from Beta 2 IDE. I assume Beta 2 help file as the most recent. I appreciate your comments.

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

petr.antos — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:56:14 GMT

Thanks for this description. I am trusting you all to be done well at the end of a day :-). Rogerj: LS is nto about SL, hopefully they can model declarations to be UI swappable by shells at all to something not yet even known :-)

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

Roger Jennings — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:07:57 GMT

What enhancements can we expect to future LightSwitch releases from the new features announced today for Silverlight 5?

Cheers,

Roger Jennings

oakleafblog.blogspot.com

re: The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application Part 4 – Data Access and Storage

Roger Jennings — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:07:45 GMT

What enhancements can we expect to future LightSwitch releases from the new features announced today for Silverlight 5?

Cheers,

Roger Jennings

oakleafblog.blogspot.com