LightSwitch Succinctly

by Jan Van der Haegen

Visual Studio LightSwitch may be one of the most under-utilized development tools available to professional and amateur developers alike. Designed specifically for creating data-centric business applications, LightSwitch alleviates some of the tedium involved in the development cycle by making the creation of screens, data entities, data relationships, queries, and more simpler and easier.

The author of this e-book, Jan Van der Haegen, is a self-described green geek who writes a monthly LightSwitch column for MSDN magazine. In LightSwitch Succinctly, he provides a quick tour of the different parts of the LightSwitch development environment so that you can judge whether Visual Studio LightSwitch would be an ideal tool to add to your belt.

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First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Doug]

Brief description of the Microsoft LightSwitch dev tool and framework to create data-centric Silverlight applications (either Windows or Web). Well written and organized, but I didn't realize it was for Silverlight till the end of the book. The book is a short, quick read, so well worth the small investment of time. IMO, LightSwitch is most appropriate for in-house, small application, but not enterprise product development, especially with Silverlight's uncertain future.