By Michael Washington on
11/24/2012 7:15 AM
 When you upgrade a LightSwitch project that uses WCF RIA Services to the format used in HTML Client Preview 2, you may get the error: ApplicationData.cs could not be found…
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By Michael Washington on
11/23/2012 7:02 PM
 The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client uses JQuery Mobile and it is compatible with ThemeRoller. This article is covering information that is contained in Beth Massi’s LightSwitch HTML Client Tutorial - Contoso Moving. However, that tutorial is currently only available in a Microsoft Word document not a web page. The information is also available at this link, but MSDN documentation has to be translated into several languages so it avoids screen shots. Therefore we will cover the information here…
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By Michael Washington on
11/22/2012 2:30 PM
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By Michael Washington on
11/10/2012 3:07 PM
 One important thing you must realize about LightSwitch is that is exposes all your entities through OData. You cannot prevent a user from updating a entity by only using screen code…
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By Michael Washington on
11/8/2012 12:20 AM
 On November 7th 2012, Beth Massi, Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft, visited the Southern California LightSwitch Users Group. She demonstrated all the new features of the latest version of LightSwitch, and created several applications from scratch. One of the most interesting applications that she created was to merge the Job Candidate Tracking Starter Kit with the live OData feed from Proagora . ...
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By Michael Washington on
9/1/2012 8:38 AM
 Visual Studio LightSwitch has the capability to allow you to create a picture file manager that will upload files to the server hard drive and display them in the user interface. This article builds on the previous article: Saving Files To File System With LightSwitch (Uploading Files). The difference is that in this article the pictures uploaded are displayed and you have the ability to delete them…
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By Michael Washington on
8/19/2012 2:53 PM
With the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012, ComponentOne has updated and released their Studio for LightSwitch…
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By Michael Washington on
8/8/2012 10:58 PM
 We had our August 2012 Southern California LightSwitch User group meeting in Irvine, CA. Beth Massi called in via Live Meeting and brought us all up to speed with the latest in the LightSwitch world: LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 is complete will be released inside Visual Studio later this month The HTML Client will be released as a add-on to LightSwitch when it is complete (expect another beta version that you can install normally, it wont be a .VHD) Joe Binder (the LightSwitch HTML project manager) has been on vacation so that is why we haven't seen him as much in the forums. Beth took questions...
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By Michael Washington on
7/22/2012 9:00 PM
 The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (preview) allows you to consume any JavaScript control. In future versions of the LightSwitch HTML Client, it should be easier to wire up custom JavaScript controls. With the current LightSwitch HTML Client, you have to perform a number of steps, however, it is still much easier than not using LightSwitch. In this article we will incorporate the Toastr plug-in that will display a popup Toast message…
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By Michael Washington on
7/6/2012 3:00 PM
 Visual Studio LightSwitch provides the fastest and easiest way to create Line-Of-Business, Forms-Over-Data applications. Previously LightSwitch produced only Silverlight applications. Now with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012, LightSwitch now allows you to communicate with its security and business layer through OData…
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By Michael Washington on
7/1/2012 9:23 PM
 This article describes a proof of concept for a native mobile application that can run on an Android or IOS tablet, and communicate with a Visual Studio LightSwitch application using OData…
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By Michael Washington on
6/27/2012 4:46 PM
 In this article we will look at creating a simple application using the LightSwitch HTML Client…
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By Michael Washington on
6/11/2012 8:28 PM
 The Visual Studio LightSwitch team announced today, that in an upcoming release (LightSwitch HTML Client Preview), LightSwitch will output HTML pages…
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By Michael Washington on
6/5/2012 9:32 AM
 Visual Studio LightSwitch developer Marden Rodrigues has agreed to share his sample code to show how he created the menu for his LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 application. The video that shows the application is here: http://screencast.com/t/2wVuj5lT. His message: Hello my name is Marden Rodrigues and I'm a VB developer, I love to develop with LightSwitch and I would like to contribute to the community by presenting this custom menu created...
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By Michael Washington on
6/3/2012 7:14 PM
The following is an except from the book: OData And Visual Studio LightSwitch Using ASP.NET / Windows Phone / jQuery / datajs / Knockout
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By Michael Washington on
5/17/2012 5:59 AM
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By Michael Washington on
5/9/2012 11:05 PM
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By Michael Washington on
5/6/2012 6:35 AM
 Visual Studio LightSwitch (In Visual Studio 11 Beta) allows you to access your LightSwitch application via OData. This provides access to the security and business rules of your LightSwitch application. In this article we will demonstrate using Windows Phone 7 to create an application that will cover Creating, Reading, Updating, and Deleting data (otherwise known as CRUD) in LightSwitch…
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By Michael Washington on
4/29/2012 6:23 PM
 Visual Studio LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 allows you to communicate directly with the LightSwitch business layer (business rules, custom code, security), though OData. This allows you to use LightSwitch as the orchestrating control for any enterprise application or deployment. In this example, we will demonstrate, using Visual Studio LightSwitch, an application to monitor and send messages to a Unity 3D online game…
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By Michael Washington on
4/23/2012 8:39 PM
 Consuming OData in Visual Studio LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2011 is very easy. When you consume an OData service in LightSwitch, its Entities that you import behave like any other LightSwitch data source (such as Internal Entities, external SQL tables, and WCF RIA Services). This allows you to easily create mash-ups where you combine different data sources to create an application. In this example, we will create an application that allows us to add our own reviews to the movies in the Netflix catalog…
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