Often we wish to personalize the HTML Client in order to either add extra functionality or to give a screen more personal and snazzy look. In this post I will walk you through some ways we can add JQuery mobile controls, add HTML code and even make css...

Introduction In this blog post, we will look at how to upgrade your existing LightSwitch applications to Visual Studio 2013 Preview . In recent blog posts, we introduced some of the cool features available in preview like Enhancements in Solution Explorer...

One of the new LightSwitch features in the Visual Studio 2013 Preview is the ability to import a list of name/value pairs to the Choice List dialog from either a file or from another Choice List. This is useful when you have a long list of values that...

Making use of a cache to “turbo-boost” the retrieval and presentation of read-only data is a common need in data-based applications. In this post, I'll walk you through how to speed up your LightSwitch application by using cached data. This is particularly...

In this post I’d like to discuss a feature of LightSwitch that helps speed up your development of HTML client applications. We first released this feature in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 with the LightSwitch HTML Client and it is also available in Visual...

Gone are the days of just one LightSwitch designer opened at any given time. With the release of Visual Studio 2103 Preview , each LightSwitch related asset seen in the Solution Explorer has its own designer instance! This means that every table, query...

What is Team Build? Team build lets you create and manage build processes that automatically analyze, compile and test your applications. Refer to the MSDN topic Build the application for more details on setting up team builds with Team Foundation Service...

If you (like me) have always wanted to have a rich multi-select experience in LightSwitch HTML Client Lists, this article may be of interest to you. This sample will show a nice pattern for adding unbound screen content items to be manipulated by the...

In this post, we will look at some of the best practices and patterns which will enable multiple developers to collaborate efficiently on a LightSwitch project. In Visual Studio 2013 , there are several new features geared toward enabling team development...

We recently announced a new version of LightSwitch available in Visual Studio 2013 Preview ! In this post we’ll discuss Team Development as one of our major investment areas for Visual Studio 2013 and how the latest version dramatically improves...

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...