The document summarizes a presentation about using Visual Studio LightSwitch for SharePoint development. It introduces LightSwitch as a rapid application development tool and discusses how it can be used to access and display SharePoint list and library data. The presentation covers the key capabilities of both LightSwitch and SharePoint, considers whether they can be used together effectively, and includes a demo.

1. SharePoint LOB
Development
using Visual Where in the world of
SharePoint does it fit?
Studio Enrique Lima
LightSwitch
October 19–21, 2011

2. Hello, my name is …
• Enrique Lima
• enrique@collaborateam.com
• Microsoft Community Contributor
• Member of the Geekswithblogs.net Community -
Influencer
– http://geekswithblogs.net/enriquelima
• @enriquelima - twitter.com/enriquelima
• Member of INETA
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3. We interrupt this program …
• Remember VB 6?
• How easy it was to build a quick an easy solution
with data access?
• How simple it was to drive an idea and make it
into a prototype?
• Been dealing with the complexities of SharePoint
Development?
• WAIT NO MORE!!!
The following represents a fictitious ad and a bad attempt at opening humor.
No lists, libraries or site collections have been hurt in the process.
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4. Agenda
• What is Visual Studio LightSwitch?
• What is SharePoint?
• Do they have a place together?
• Food for thought
• Demo
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5. What is Visual Studio LightSwitch?
• RAD
• Business application focused
• Basic principles:
– get data
– display data
– put data
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6. What is SharePoint?
• Can we consider it a data repository?
• What types of data can we find?
• Lists? Libraries?
• What about Authentication?
• And where did you leave Authorization?
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7. Do they have a place together?
• Uses SharePoint as a data
source/repository
• Shift in mindset
• But? But? Where do we deploy? And
How?
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8. Food for thought
• InfoPath vs. LightSwitch
• How does it work?
– Lists
– Managed Metadata Services
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9. demo
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10. In closing …
• Who moved my cheese?
• Would it help deliver better solutions?
• What about adoption?
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11. Resources
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch
• http://geekswithblogs.net/enriquelima
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/
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