More details: http://www.sadev.co.za/content/devdays-south-africa-2011-my-talks Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud. LightSwitch simplifies the development process by letting you concentrate on the business logic, while LightSwitch handles the common tasks for you. In this demo-heavy session, you will see, end to end, how to build and deploy a data-centric business application using LightSwitch. After that you will discover what is under the hood to better understand the architecture of a LightSwitch application. Finally you will learn how you can use Visual Studio 2010 Professional and Expression Blend 4 to customize and extend its UI and Data layers for when the application's requirements grow beyond what is supported by default.

2. Robert MacLean www.sadev.co.za BBD Software Visual Studio Lightswitch TRACK: Next Gen

3. AgendaIntroduction to Lightswitch New Toolset for Development Forms over data Build applications quickly, consistently using proven practices “Russian Doll” model with Visual Studio Beta 2 Things may change My excuse for crashes too

4. Lightswitch demo demo

5. SummaryIntroduction to Lightswitch Easy to build apps Great architecture Silverlight on the front end WCF in the middle Correctly structured Security & deployment taken care of Extensible! Custom fields, controls, themes & layouts

6. Grab the bits and start to play & experiment Join in the discussion on the Social Forums Slides + Demos @ www.sadev.co.za Calls to Action

7. Keep in Touch facebook.com/msdevsa @msdevsa http://blogs.msdn.com/southafrica

8. Don’t forget the Xbox Kinect show-down after sessions this evening!

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