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Building Office 365 Cloud Business Apps
Last updated: Monday, December 27, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2014 - May/June
You already know that using Visual Studio 2013 streamlines building business apps. Beth shows you how to use its Cloud Business App project template to improve collaboration between Office 365, SharePoint, and all your mobile devices.
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Using Custom Controls to Enhance LightSwitch Application UI
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - July/August
Developers of LightSwitch applications are not limited to the set of standard UI controls that come “out of the box.” If your application has specific requirements that are not covered by the standard control set, you can use third-party LightSwitch controls or use regular Silverlight controls (also called “custom controls”) to enhance your UI. In this article I will show you how to get started with custom controls and how to make custom controls and screens work together (interact).
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Understanding the Data Validation Framework in Visual Studio LightSwitch
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - May/June
Any application that deals with data needs data validation. Prem walks through aspects of data validation in Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch and provides insight into certain details of the underlying framework and design.
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Ask the Doc Detective
Last updated: Thursday, May 12, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
Mar/April 2011 Doc Detective
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From Zero to Business Application in 15 Minutes
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch.Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop and the cloud.LightSwitch is an extensible development environment and application framework that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast. In this article I will walk you through creating a business application from beginning to end using Visual Studio LightSwitch.
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Getting the Most Out of the Save Pipeline in Visual Studio LightSwitch
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
Visual Studio LightSwitch applications consist of three tiers: presentation, logic and data. This article discusses the logic tier and its save pipeline. The save pipeline is where developers write business logic that runs as changes are processed on the logic tier and saved to the data storage tier. The save pipeline is automatically generated with every LightSwitch application. Understanding the processing done in the save pipeline is not required to successfully build and deploy applications with LightSwitch, but adding save pipeline business logic provides additional flexibility and control when data is saved.
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Inside Visual Studio LightSwitch
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - March/April
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch uses a model-centric architecture for defining, building, and executing a 3-tier LightSwitch application.
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Build Business Applications Quickly with Visual Studio LightSwitch
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - January/February
LightSwitch is a new development tool and extensible application framework for building data-centric business applications. LightSwitch simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic and does a lot of the remaining work for you. With LightSwitch, an application can be designed, built, tested, and in your user’s hands quickly. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to get done fast.