This is part III to the article LightSwitch Student Information System.



In this article we will explore taking LightSwitch to the edge of it’s abilities. We will do it for a good reason, and we will demonstrate that it is a tool that is capable of professional development.

This article continues from where the article, LightSwitch Student Information System (Part 2): Business Rules and Screen Permissions...

This is part II to the article LightSwitch Student Information System.



In this installment, we will add Attendance to the system. We will use this opportunity to cover implementing Business Rules and Screen Permissions.

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To demonstrate LightSwitch functionality in a real world example, I have decided to create a Student information System. Eventually this will handle attendance and grades, but, for this first installment it will simply allow you to enroll students.



First, let us examine how a Student Information System usually works. A Course, and a Teacher make up a Section. A Student and a Section make up an Enrollment.

An Enrollment is the “heart” of a Student Information System. A Section, and an Enrollment are for a “period of time”. Grades, Attendance, and all other elements of the Student Information System, are tied to (associated with), Enrollments.

In this article we will build the...

With a little code you can get LightSwitch to do almost whatever you want. For an application I am working on, I wanted a screen that would display information about the current user.

What is unique about this particular requirement, was that I wanted to display a page that was not associated with a Table of data. I just wanted a screen to show, and display code that I wrote.

The code will show the current user, if they are authenticated, and what the authentication type that the application is using.

 

Set Up Authentication in LightSwitch  

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