Visual Studio LightSwitch (Beta 1) Overview

Turn It On! Visual Studio LightSwitch
Steve Lange
Sr. Developer Technology Specialist
Microsoft | Developer & Platform Evangelism
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Who The #&@^ Are You?
Steve Lange
Sr. Developer Technology Specialist
Microsoft | Developer & Platform Evangelism
Field Specialist for Microsoft Development Tools
Visual Studio Ultimate
Team Foundation Server
Test Professional
Lab Management

Agenda
What is Visual Studio LightSwitch?
But I’m a REAL Developer!
Anatomy of a LightSwitch Project
Creating an Application
Extending the Application
Deploying the Application

Awesome Disclaimer
LightSwitch is in Beta 1
For IIS deployment, currently only supports IIS 7
Currently no “go live” license available
More functionality, templates available at RTM.

What is LightSwitch?
Quickly create professional-quality, data-centric business applications
Build custom applications
Pre-configured screen templates
Pre-written code & reusable components
Deploy to desktop, browser, or cloud
Easily access existing systems and data
Build for today, prepare for tomorrow

Export data to Excel
Access data sources
SQL Server
SQL Azure
WCF RIA Services
SharePoint
Access
Create your own entities

Full Extensible templates & components
Build practical & scalable applications
Host in Azure for future scalability

But I’m a REAL Developer!
Relax.. Take a breath
Build out basic LOB apps faster
Redundant stuff is done for you
Navigation
Validation
Relationships
These apps still need your skills
Customizations
Permissions
Events
Computed fields

Visual Studio LightSwitch

Project
Data & Entities
Screens
Queries
Security
Debugging & Extensions
Deployment

Projects
Silverlight
Just look under the covers

Projects
They’re exactly what you think they are!
Store and organize pieces of your application
Contains data entities, screens, queries and resources required to build the application.
Logical application view by default

Data & Entities
Data Entity - basic model for data
Tables
Connect to existing data
Create new data
Create entities directly in LightSwitch
Entity Designer

Lots of Places to Write Code
Tables/Entities
Queries
Screens

Screens
What the user sees
Specify which data to display
Specify layout
New Entity
Search Data
Entity Details
Editable Grid
List and Details

Screens
Customize screen at either design or run-time
Navigation & Menus
Create & reorder menus
Manage navigation groups

Queries
Work with a subset of data
Filter, group, sort, add parameters

Queries - Extending
Query Designer is limited
Can’t reference related entities that have a multiplicity of many
Doesn’t support operations such as Count(), Aggregate(), or Sum()

Security
Supports Windows or Forms authentication
Controls access to screens, queries, entities

Debugging & Extensions
Debugging
As usual
Break, pause, continue
Extensions
Themes, controls, etc.
Via VS Extensions Manager

Deployment
Deploy based on application type
Desktop client, 2-tier
App on desktop, direct data access
Desktop client, 3-tier
App on desktop, data access via IIS
Browser client, 3-tier
App in browser, data access via IIS

Flip the Switch
Building your first LightSwitch Application

Let’s Build Something: Scenario
Simple User Group Manager Application
Members list resides in SQL Server
Need to track members & their activities
Screens
Member List
Search

Thanks!
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