Visual Studio LightSwitch team member Huy Nguyen typically provides well explained answers to difficult questions, and usually provides code samples, and in some cases downloadable projects.  Previously, I created examples using techniques I learned from some of my favorite posts that he made. In this article, I have created more examples from his latest articles…

Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio LightSwitch Insider, Alessandro Del Sole recently released an extension that “provides an easy way to install a number of JavaScript code snippets for the LightSwitch HTML Client created by the LightSwitch Team at Microsoft”. I decided to use it to help you create the code to implement the JQuery Mobile Reflow Table in Visual Studio LightSwitch that was covered in the article: LightSwitch HTML Client For The Desktop Web Browser…

To maximize performance, all applications must properly manage the flow of data. When dealing with an entity (one row of data), Visual Studio LightSwitch transfers the entire entity from the data layer to the client, the user interface (UI) layer.  When dealing with collections (rows of data) LightSwitch uses Visual Collections, and is very deliberate as to how, and when it places entities in the Visual Collection…

You can easily implement animated help agents in your Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client applications…

An objection many developers have about using Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client for their projects, is that they feel they need normal web pages. To many developers, LightSwitch HTML pages look odd when viewed in a normal desktop web browser.

The Reflow table displays data in a desktop web browser like any normal data grid, yet it will dynamically pivot the table when the screen becomes smaller (rather than just squeezing the table smaller). A user can easily view and navigate the table on any sized device…

The Visual Studio LightSwitch runtime was updated to support JQuery Mobile 1.3. This is a step by step guide to updating the LightSwitch JavaScript Runtime…

Visual Studio LightSwitch team member Huy Nguyen is a good person to follow on the Visual Studio LightSwitch forums. He typically provides well explained answers to difficult questions and usually provides code samples, and in some cases downloadable projects. In this article, I have created examples using techniques I learned from some of my favorite posts that he made…

You may have situations where you need to dynamically create records. Typically you will want to do this when you don’t want to navigate away to a new page to add a record…

The primary reason you may want to use WCF RIA Services with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 is to:

• Combine more than one entity into a single entity.
• Eliminate unneeded columns in an entity to improve performance (otherwise large amounts of data, for example pictures, will be transmitted even when they are not shown).
• Implement calculated fields that allow the resulting values to be searchable and sortable.

LightSwitch will allow you to easily create a popup to allow a user to select an item from a list in an associated table and to set a value. What is more difficult, is constraining that list of items presented based on business rules…