1. Visual Studio
LightSwitch 2011

2. What is LightSwitch?
• The simplest way to build business apps for desktop and cloud
• lets you concentrate on the business logic instead of the
application infrastructure

3. Why LightSwitch?
• Helps you build professional quality business apps regardless
of your dev skills
• Build a business app without typing a single code

4. building business apps

5. Create a new project

6. Where is your data?

7. 2 types of data
• Create New Table
• Create a new database from scratch
• Attach to external Data Source
• Existing data from SQL Server or somewhere

8. Choose a data source type

9. Selecting a database

10. Choose DB objects

11. LightSwitch reads the objects

12. New DataTypes
• EmailAddress
• PhoneNumber
• Money

13. Properties
Display Name
- change the display name
Display by Default
- does not display if unchecked
Is Required
Allow Empty String (Allow Nulls)

14. Screens
• Screens are like ‘forms’ in WinForms
• How to add a screen

15. Built-in screens

16. Screen Designer
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17. Execute the app!

18. Redesign your screen in runtime

19. Edit Existing Records

20. …and not a single code was written 