Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed

Advertisement

Today's Books

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed, 9780672335532 (0672335530), Sams Publishing, 2012

Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch® Unleashed

Alessandro Del Sole

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch–from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces.

Implement features such as screen navigation, data interaction, paging, and Excel export, with absolutely no coding
Build simple data-centric applications and add power to them with relationships and details
Rapidly create customized queries, filters, sorts, and reports
Aggregate data from many locations, including SharePoint, SQL Server, and the cloud
Simplify the implementation of application-level data validation
Protect your applications with authentication and authorization
Fine tune your code for scalability and performance
Streamline deployment to local computers, web servers, and the Windows Azure cloud
Use .NET code to define custom behaviors related to data and the user interface
Understand how LightSwitch applications are architected and how they are handled by Visual Studio
Use LightSwitch with other Visual Studio tools to manage the entire application life cycle
Efficiently debug LightSwitch code–and create code that’s easier to debug

Category: Microsoft Programming

Covers: LightSwitch

User Level: Intermediate—Advanced

ON THE WEB:

Download all examples and source code presented in this book as they are available from informit.com/title/9780672335532

Comments

Amazing Books

Developing Microsoft Office Solutions: Answers for Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000, and Office 97

Addison Wesley, 2003

Build custom Microsoft Office solutions that solve real business problems--fast!

Now, there's a practical, easy-to-use guide for every developer and power user who wants to solve real business problems with custom Microsoft Office applications.

Packed with case studies and code examples, this book covers...

Worst-Case Execution Time Aware Compilation Techniques for Real-Time Systems (Embedded Systems)

Springer, 2010

For real-time systems, the worst-case execution time (WCET) is the key objective to be considered. Traditionally, code for real-time systems is generated without taking this objective into account and the WCET is computed only after code generation. Worst-Case Execution Time Aware Compilation Techniques for Real-Time Systems presents...

De-interlacing: A Key Technology for Scan Rate Conversion (Advances in Image Communication)

North Holland, 2000

'To interlace or not to interlace' is a hot issue currently. Traditionally interlace has been part of the video standard as it reduces the transmission and display demands, while hardly affecting the perceived quality of the pictures.

With the current explosion of new video formats due to emerging technologies as multimedia PC's,...

Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families

The Guilford Press, 2019

Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection. The primary developer of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) for couples, Johnson now extends her...

Meta-Algorithmics: Patterns for Robust, Low Cost, High Quality Systems

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

The confluence of cloud computing, parallelism and advanced machine intelligence approaches has created a world in which the optimum knowledge system will usually be architected from the combination of two or more knowledge-generating systems. There is a need, then, to provide a reusable, broadly-applicable set of design patterns to empower...

Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: 4th International Symposium, New Delhi, India

Springer, 2010

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2010. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers can be categorized under following broad areas such as phonology...