Friday, July 27, 2012

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch


This is actually development environment which helps you to create forms-over-data applications in few minutes without writing single line of code. With the latest VS2012 RC candidate, you get the project template in built. You can use VB.NET or C# to write the code if required.

On the presentation tier of the LightSwitch application, you have SliverLight. The application can use WCF RIA domain services in ASP.NET. The application is basically three-tier architecture. Logic tier can include WCF RIA, Entity Framework, OData etc. Storage can include SQL server, SQL Azure, SQL Express or Sharepoint data lists.

Recommended for building quick forms-over-data application. You can practically build new data, master list data, edit list with details and search screens in few minutes using the available templates (including validations etc) and fetching the data from storage as mentioned above. One can dive deep and write core C# code to take it one level deeper.

More to come… J
Amol

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