One of the new LightSwitch features in the Visual Studio 2013 Preview is enabling the use of SQL Server Data Tools projects (here’s the MSDN SSDT documentation and their blog ). When you add a database project to your LightSwitch project, the contents...

Last week we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview and highlighted some improvements in this release of LightSwitch. One of which is the significant improvement of working with LightSwitch projects in the Solution Explorer. We will...

Fresh off the back of our recent April release of the LightSwitch HTML Client in VS2012 Update 2 , the team is proud to follow up with more incremental value with the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview announced this week . For starters, all...

Matt Sampson's got a blog about making a LightSwitch HTML App that queries data from the one and only Stack Overflow by attaching to their very cool public OData Service. (Now you can use a LightSwitch app to keep track of all the LightSwitch related...

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...

If you’ve done any LightSwitch apps for SharePoint you may have noticed that we incorporate a version of the SharePoint chrome control.  You may not have known what it was (or what it was called), but you do now.  You can also customize it and...

When we took a bet on jQuery, jQueryMobile, and datajs for our HTML client, we recognized that we’d need to adapt to the rapid release cadence these frameworks employ.  At the same time, we know that small issues in our application runtime can cause...

Maybe you've already heard about ASP.NET SignalR and how you can use it to do "real-time" web. Or how it lets you easily push content from your server up into your HTML5 Client, or back from your client to the server. But have you seen how you can...

With Visual Studio Update 2 we finally added a functionality a lot of you (especially outside the US) have been waiting for, the localization of LightSwitch applications into multiple languages. Until then you had to hardcode a single language into your...

Ok, your app is done, you’ve learned how to authenticate it and publish it like I demonstrated in my previous post .  When you’re done with the publish wizard on a SharePoint app, you’ll see an explorer window open with folders for each version of...

Overview With a little homage to Hot Shots Part Deux we’ll drill in a bit deeper utilizing the ServerApplicationContext for creating Dashboard reports. Part 1 is here: Create Dashboard Reports with LightSwitch, WebAPI and ServerApplicationContext LightSwitch...

Overview Applications are creating and consuming more data than ever before. With so much data, how can your users quickly spot trends and get an overview of what’s important? Just as your car presents a dashboard indicating the top priority items, so...

The ServerApplicationContext API is a new feature in LightSwitch, available with Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 or later, which allows you to create entirely new ways to call custom business logic on the LightSwitch Server, using the same rich API you're...

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...

On behalf of the LightSwitch team, I am proud to announce the release of the LightSwitch HTML client in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2! It’s been an exciting journey for us and we thank you for all your valuable feedback that got us here. LightSwitch in...

One of the many awesome things about LightSwitch is its flexible deployment model. When you design a LightSwitch application you are actually building a multi-tier application. Because of this multi-tier design, you can deploy a LightSwitch application...

Hi, I’m Chris Rummel, a tester on the LightSwitch team.  I work mostly on SharePoint features.  Brian has already gone over a lot of the benefits of SharePoint development with LightSwitch in his article A quick & easy LightSwitch app for...

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...

Welcome to the 4 th installment of the Signed-In app walkthrough! Here are the previous posts: Signed-In Part 1 – Introduction Signed-In Part 2 – Upcoming Events Screen Signed-In Part 3 – Guest List Screen We have implemented...

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...

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...

Before I show you all the wonderful things about LightSwitch , let me tell you a little story behind this post. I’m a college football fan. During the football season, I’d attend the game watching events organized by the local alumni association. At every...

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...

I'm a Program Manager on the SharePoint features for LightSwitch. I'll be honest... it's taken me a while to warm up to SharePoint development. Prior to this release, my only exposure to SharePoint was with SharePoint 2010 and earlier. Perhaps you can...

After releasing the preview of our HTML Client to a broader audience, it became pretty clear from your feedback that we had to work on the user experience of LightSwitch HTML applications. While not everybody is an expert in user experience design, it...