Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 Released! The latest update for Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download . You can read about all the new features on the Visual Studio blog , Soma’s blog and Brian Harry’s blog . There are some important...

June provided another great month of articles and samples. If you have missed past content rollups, you can check them all out here: LightSwitch Community & Content Rollups. App-Stitch Jan Van der Haegen announced ‘his new baby,’ www.app-stitch.com...

Hopefully you already know that publishing your LightSwitch app or Cloud Business App to an Azure Web site is the quickest and easiest way to get your app published. You may not know, however, about some recent enhancements in Visual Studio that also...

You have built a LightSwitch application and deployed it to an Azure Web Site and everything is working as expected. One day you receive a call that your application is not functioning as it should be. What should you do? In this article, I’ll show...

It has been a busy month for the LightSwitch community! I have many wonderful extensions, articles,  a release and even a e-book to share. If you have missed past content rollups, you can check them all out here: LightSwitch Community & Content...

You asked for it, and here it is. I’m proud to announce the availability of the HTML Client API Reference in the MSDN Library. The single page article provides reference documentation for every member of the JavaScript API for LightSwitch HTML clients...

In Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (as well as Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update ) some enhancements are available in the area of attaching to SQL Views. These enhancements were made based on the feedback we received...

TechEd 2014 is going on this week in Houston, Texas and there have been many exciting announcements from all over Microsoft. You can read about all the exciting developer-focused announcements on Soma’s blog: Mobile-first, Cloud-first Development – Visual...

Two Beths for the Price of One This month’s content rollup is not written by the fabulous Beth Massi, but instead being written by a different Beth. Hi, I’m Elizabeth Maher. You’ve probably seen me around in the forums and team blog...

With the new Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update comes a feature called “Just My Code” for JavaScript , which can speed up your debugging experience by allowing you to focus on debugging your own code, and not library or...

One of the great features of Visual Studio LightSwitch and Cloud Business Apps (CBA) is its ability to perform what we call data mashup . You can connect to multiple data sources, configure virtual relationships between entities in different data sources...

In the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, the Munchkins urge Dorothy to “follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the Yellow Brick Road!” Y’know… Dorothy probably wouldn’t have been very happy if the neighboring red brick road turned out to be shorter and/or...

Today we will be exploring some new features introduced in the Office Developer Tools – March 2014 Update that make filtering rich sets of data easier – Table Sort, Search bar and auto-complete support for modal picker. These features work with both LightSwitch...

In this post, I’m going to introduce two scenarios now possible with the person type using the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update . If you are unfamiliar with the person business type in Cloud Business Apps, team members...

A while back I started posting a monthly rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch over on my personal blog. If you missed those rollups you can check them all out here: LightSwitch...

The Build 2014 conference was recently held in San Francisco. See http://www.buildwindows.com/ for links to all the key note and session videos. Our very own Beth Massi gave a talk about Cloud Business Apps. In her session she builds a survey application...

In a LightSwitch or Cloud Business App it’s very common to want to browse, add, view, and edit data. Previously you would have to create a bunch of screens one by one and then connect them all together. This can result in a lot of effort, especially...

A recent post, Integrating Documents in Cloud Business Apps , was published on the Apps for Office and SharePoint Blog which discusses the ability to integrate application data with SharePoint document libraries. In this article, we will review some...

For the Office Developer Tools – March 2014 Update , we’ve added the ability to integrate application data with SharePoint document libraries. We’ve also added a new control to display related documents in a Cloud Business App. Team...

Business apps typically need to connect to large data sources and schemas. That’s why in the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update we've done a lot of work to improve the experience for working with large data models in both...

For the Office Developer Tools – March 2014 Update , we’ve added several new features that enhance the experience for connecting to enterprise data sources. Whether you are building a LightSwitch app or a Cloud Business App , you can now create a line...

We released the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update on Monday which contains a ton of new features for Office 365 Cloud Business Apps and LightSwitch projects as well as apps for Office & SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013...

Today at SharePoint Conference 2014, the Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update was made available to download . This update contains a ton of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business Apps and LightSwitch...

A LightSwitch application at its core is built by adding data to screens and creating a tree of content items to display and interact with this data. LightSwitch provides a JavaScript API over these content items so that you can interact with them programmatically...

LightSwitch generates a custom API set based on project assets that developers can use when writing custom code in the HTML client. Each data source, table, query and screen causes various items to be created in the API. Even actions on each of the LightSwitch...