With Visual Studio LightSwitch, you have a “get out of jail free card” in the use of Custom Silverlight Controls. With a Custom Silverlight Control, you can implement functionality that is outside the normal abilities of LightSwitch.

I’m sure your greatest fear is having to stand in front of the Chief Technology Officer, and explain why the LightSwitch application, that the company invested so much time and energy into, has to now be re-written as a regular Silverlight application because it “can’t perform the new requirements”.

Let’s put aside the fact that in normal business environments, you have several applications running...

8:40 pm – I downloaded LightSwitch and it’s installing. I downloaded the .iso image and mounted it with PowerISO. This is a Beta and the first one at that. All I hope to see is “idiot Proof”...