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Written by:
Michael Washington
6/11/2012 8:28 PM
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The Visual Studio LightSwitch team announced today, that in an upcoming release (LightSwitch HTML Client Preview), LightSwitch will output HTML pages!
You can get all the details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch/archive/2012/06/11/announcing-the-lightswitch-html-client.aspx.
To see it in action you must watch this great video: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/funkyonex/Early-Look-at-the-Visual-Studio-LightSwitch-HTML-Client.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/3cae00e3c805_12393/image_thumb_3.png)
You will be able to add one or more Client projects to your LightSwitch solution.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/3cae00e3c805_12393/image_thumb_4.png)
For now, the only option is to add a HTML Client.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/3cae00e3c805_12393/image_thumb_5.png)
The process to create a Screen remains the same as a normal LightSwitch Silverlight screen.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/3cae00e3c805_12393/image_thumb_6.png)
You will also be able to customize the JavaScript.
The Output
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/3cae00e3c805_12393/image_thumb_7.png)
The HTML client leverages jQuery Mobile that provides support for easy navigation by mobile devices and Tables.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/3cae00e3c805_12393/image_thumb_8.png)
It also provides theming.
![image image](http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/portals/0/blog/3cae00e3c805_12393/image_thumb_9.png)
In the initial release, the pages are optimized for mobile clients.
You will want to read the responses about full page HTML from the LightSwitch team on this thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitchhtml/thread/efe77051-66e4-4d88-9f8a-c2472ee023a5.
Download
When the announced LightSwitch HTML Client Preview is ready, it should be available for download from this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch/htmlclient
2 comment(s) so far...
wow.
By Paul McCranie on
6/15/2012 5:36 AM
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This is fantastic. It really gives a lightswitch app scale within the market now onto cross device/platform. It will also help in converting old winform sql projects into new SL desktop / HTML web access applications.
im currently rebuilding our in house crm and have about 60% of its functionality rebuilt in lightswitch in 1 day, amazing
By cjoc on
6/22/2012 5:08 AM
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