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Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 (In Visual Studio 11) allows you to access your LightSwitch application via OData. This allows you to access the business layer and security of your LightSwitch application. It also allows your LightSwitch application to communicate with web pages, mobile clients (IPad, Android, Windows Phone) and other clients such as Excel PowerPivot.

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When you have Visual Studio LightSwitch 2010 (the released version) and Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 (the Beta version) on the same machine, you may have a problem installing some extensions.



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In LightSwitch 2011, the team ripped out the guts and replaced the WCF RIA engine with an OData engine. The following are some techniques to observe how LightSwitch communicates using OData…

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 (In Visual Studio 11) allows you to access your LightSwitch data via OData. This allows your LightSwitch application to communicate with web pages, mobile clients (IPad, Android, Windows Phone) and other clients such as Excel PowerPivot...

Many of you have discovered the power of using WCF RIA Services that are simply pointing to the internal LightSwitch database. The LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com has covered this in the articles:

WCF RIA Service: Combining Two Tables

Using WCF RIA Services In LightSwitch To Simplify Your Application UI

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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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