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You may have the need to access your custom LightSwitch WCF RIA Services from outside of LightSwitch using OData. This article will show you how …

 

The LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com is an ASP.NET Web Application that currently has four LightSwitch applications integrated into it (you can access them from the DEMOS tab). The integration means that a user will have Single-Sign-On between the ASP.NET Website and the LightSwitch application. This integration has been covered in the article: Easy DotNetNuke LightSwitch Deployment....

DELORDSON has released a new LightSwitch Shell called the LightSwitch OutlookBar Shell. This Shell offers some unique features that are not found on any LightSwitch Shell due to a clever use of hidden screen buttons to allow you to create a grouped accordion menu that can display your own custom icons …

Visual Studio LightSwitch allows you to create Collection Control extensions. A Collection Control extension allows you to specify the control that will display a Entity collection in LightSwitch. At the time this article is written, there is no official documentation on creating Collection Control extensions. The only example of a Collection Control that Microsoft provides is the Many-To-Many control (see: Using The Many-To-Many Control).

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Visual Studio LightSwitch allows you to create Group extensions. A Group extension allows you to specify the layout of controls contained in the group.



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The LightSwitch Detail control extension is one of the most versatile of all the LightSwitch control extensions. When you are trying to create a reusable LightSwitch component, and other extension types are not working for you, you may find the Detail control extension will fit your needs…

Visual Studio LightSwitch allows you to create Business Type extensions. A Business Type “enables you to present data in a way that is most appropriate for your application without changing the data type in which the data is stored in the underlying database”. In this article we will create a Business Type for a Customer Code. The underlying type will be a String, but the Business Type will be a custom type that requires the first character to not be a number and for it to be at least 10 characters long. It will also have its own custom control for display and editing…

Visual Studio LightSwitch allows you to create Theme extensions. A theme controls the overall look of a LightSwitch application…

 

Visual Studio LightSwitch allows you to create Screen Template extensions. The primary reason you would want to create one is to allow LightSwitch programmers to easily consume a custom control.

When deploying a LightSwitch web based application, the easiest method is to use the Publishing Wizard. However, the server that will host the LightSwitch application has to have the prerequisites installed. 

LightSwitch creates a normal ASP.NET application that launces a Silverlight application, so it is possible to package in...