Visual Studio LightSwitch – True Power Lies In Simplicity

visual studio lightswitchVisual Studio LightSwitch – If I had to ask you to write an application that just needs to record basic member details (Name, Last Name, Telephone, Address and Image), how long do you think that will take you to do? Can you give me a ball park figure on the time it will take? What about 30 minutes?

Well Visual Studio LightSwitch is one of the most incredible technologies available to developers. If you need to create highly customizable data driven forms, Visual Studio LightSwitch is the way to go.

The Visual Studio LightSwitch community is a large one, and is made up of some really awesome people too numerous to mention. But there are a few that I do want to introduce you too. Here are your wingmen and women. Be sure to bookmark their blogs, add them to your RSS feed and follow them on social media. (more…)

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The Daily Six Pack: August 6, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio Unit Test Generator Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands!, Willy-P. Schaub Other Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts, Brian…

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The Daily Six Pack: August 2, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio Intellisense Visual Studio Intellisense Stops Working. How to reactivate?, Kunal Chowdhury Other Interfaces vs Abstract Classes, Mayank Dubey NSA Project XKeyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet, John Biggs Windows 8.1…

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The Daily Six Pack: July 3, 2013

LightSwitch Visual Studio 2013 - Beth Massi talks about some of the new features such as Improved JavaScript IntelliSense, API support for refreshing data, Integration with Team Build and Code Analysis, Improved team development, Intrinsic database management with linked database project, LightSwitch projects work more seamlessly with the IDE, all your…

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The Daily Six Pack: June 7, 2013

VS Anywhere is a third-party tool for Visual Studio. It helps to increase the collaboration between team members and especially developers. VS Anywhere will also allow knowledge transfer where Developers can setup and join a real-time learning session on-demand. Do you think that great programmers are born, not made? What do…

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The Daily Six Pack: May 28, 2013

LightSwitch Code Snippets is an extension that Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio LightSwitch Insider, Alessandro Del Sole recently released. It "provides an easy way to install a number of JavaScript code snippets for the LightSwitch HTML Client created by the LightSwitch Team at Microsoft". If you haven't worked with LightSwitch…

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