The Table control is a new way to display a collection of data in the LightSwitch HTML Client as of Visual Studio 2013 . Like all controls in the LightSwitch HTML client, you can take over the rendering and write your own custom code. Today we will be...

Cloud Business Apps in Visual Studio 2013 allow you to easily integrate with SharePoint and use the Office 365 collaboration and social features – including newsfeeds .  You can now expose entity data in your app as a newsfeed so that users can choose...

As databases are used by many applications and many users within those applications, it’s a common practice to log when data was created or last modified. In addition to knowing when the data was changed, knowing who changed the data is a common...

Today we’ll be exploring two new features added to LightSwitch HTML Client – global navigation and default details screens. With global navigation you can navigate to any Browse screen from any other screen throughout the LightSwitch application. Default...

The Person business type is a new LightSwitch feature introduced in Visual Studio 2013 . Its goal is to make it easy to add and manage people-related data in your application. In this post we will show you how to use the Person type and what it can do...

Office 365 is an ideal business app platform providing a core set of services expected in today’s business apps and a central location for installing, discovering, and managing apps. Office 365 makes these business apps available where users already spend...

Matt Sampson , Senior Tester on the LightSwitch Team, wrote an HTML Upload Control available on NuGet that you can use in your SharePoint-enabled apps. The control will upload any file to a document library. He wrote a post on his blog showing how to...

Soma just announced that Visual Studio 2013 has been released to the web! Download Visual Studio 2013 We are super excited to get this release out the door and into your hands. Visual Studio 2013 contains a ton of new tools for developers to build best...

Our very own Matt Sampson , Tester on the LightSwitch team, is featured today on the Visual Studio team blog ! Matt explains how we took advantage of a slimmer OData format called JSON Light to minimize the payloads from the server to the HTML client...

While the built-in controls and features provided by LightSwitch are optimized for smaller form factors, it is possible to take advantage of the mouse events available on desktop browsers to enable drag and drop when then situation calls for it . With...

This article demonstrates the usage of code analytic tools available for LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013. Analytic tools that will be covered include - Code Analysis , Code Metrics , Code Maps and Remote Debugging . Code analysis tools enable developers...

You’re building apps that are hosted in the cloud. Your users can be anywhere across the globe. When you’re viewing a customer service call log, and you see a customer called at 4:30pm and was really upset their service was still down, how...

Recently we announced the availability of Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 and highlighted some of the new features introduced in LightSwitch. The Table control is one of those newly added features. This post provides a walk-through of the new...

The release candidate for Visual Studio 2013 is available for download ! The release candidate bundles many of the features we mentioned in the Visual Studio 2013 Preview —such as better support for team development and a refined Solution Explorer...

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a great development environment for writing line of business applications that provide a consistent mobile and desktop friendly user interface that talk to various data sources including ODATA, SharePoint and SQL. SharePoint...

Using Visual Studio 2013, we can create automated test projects like a Coded UI Test or a Web Performance and Load Test to test LightSwitch Applications. A Coded UI Test is used for creating automated tests for the UI. A Web Performance and Load Test...

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...