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To start, create an end-to-end application in LightSwitch. The purpose is to demonstrate how LightSwitch allows you to create professional business applications that would take a single developer weeks to create. With LightSwitch you can create such applications in under an hour.
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If you are new to Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch, start with the Online Ordering System tutorial. This will give you a good idea of what LightSwitch can do.
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LightSwitch Beginners: Silverlight 5 breaks LightSwitch
Running VS 2010 Professional, SP1, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit... A few days ago, I upgraded to Silverlight 5 using the Windows upate. Today I tried to create a LightSwitch project. It failed, I would get errors when creating the project, first that it was unable to find a version of the Silverlig ...
In early stages of learning LS and still drinking from a fire hose.   I have successfully built and run several test apps including tutorials such as Vision Clinic and have been trying and testing various LS extensions.   But a couple of days ago the app that I was playing with stopp ...
Hello everybody. Trying to link a newly created role, with some custom permissions assigned, I tried to link a new user to that role, and that seems ok at least in Lightswitch app screen (you know, Administration -> Users, Roles). But, just to confirm this as a working addition, in ScreenName_ ...
LightSwitch Beginners: Where to write SQL Query
Hi, Where I can write SQL query and get result.  Because, I use Add Query its only allow add filter, sort. I want last record only.  ...
How, we can get last record values and perform some operation on it and store to another field. Means, I have ID generated automatically, But I want to my my own Item code field values based on last ID + 1 + "A" ...
LightSwitch Beginners: Searching for First Light
Ok, so I have made some strides here. Finally created my first EVER C# project - a WCF RIA services that successfully calls a stored procedure... in fact two of them. I have two entities now, a parent one and a child one... litterally. I don't require search enabled for the child data but I do for t ...
I'm working with Lightswitch for the first time so bear with me if I've done something wrong. I have defined a custom type:     public class FormList     {         [Key]         pub ...
I have  MainGroup Item, SubGroup Item and Item Table. The data is like. When I want to make Entry for Item Table,  I have to select MainGroup from list, and based on Maingroup associated data from SubGroup is displayed in list. Right now all data is displays.  Can ...
LightSwitch Beginners: Problem with Excel Importer
Hi, i'm using the Excel Importer and it works great.. Bu I'm importing Excel Data with German Names like 'Nöll', 'Züllich' a.s.o. After importing I get "N*ll", "Z°llich". Where can I switch to the correct lanuage ? Pleas help. Thanks Mike ...
LightSwitch Beginners: Save pipeline
I've got stuck on the save pipeline of Light Switch. I want to call a stored procedure after a record is been saved. I was searching on saved_executed but this is a overall function and the id LS was working in has lost. After that my 1st thought was to give de ID to saved_executed but LS ...


 

 
           

 

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