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Note: This article applies to LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (LightSwitch V2) It’s common for developers to add static images and text to their screens to help guide their users through the application.  Although you can easily add images that come a database to your screens, up
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Matt Sampson has posted part 3 of a multi-part blog post this week that completes the walkthrough of creating an application around the popular public transit CommuterApi OData Service. This post focuses on creating a RIA Data Service
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Eric Erhardt has posted part 2 in his series on using stored procedures in LightSwitch. In the second part, he describes how you can use Visual Studio LightSwitch to update database records using stored procedures.  A lot of database administrators only allow modifications to data through
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The first release of Visual Studio LightSwitch (LightSwitch V1) allows users to define relationships between tables within the intrinsic/built-in data source (ApplicationData).  When attaching to existing data sources, LightSwitch will import the relationships defined within the data
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Eric Erhardt has posted part 1 of a series on using stored procedures in LightSwitch.  In the first part, he describes how you can execute a stored procedure when a user clicks a button on your LightSwitch screen. The blog post is here – Read more...

By Michael Washington on 6/9/2011 7:30 PM

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There is no built-in reporting for LightSwitch. DevExpress provides a Free LightSwitch reporting control...

By Michael Washington on 5/12/2011 5:25 AM

With LightSwitch, there is no built in Printing. Here is a method that works. This will also show you how to create a custom template to allow you to print exactly what you want, not just the current screen...
By Michael Washington on 5/12/2011 4:19 AM
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Printing in LightSwitch was previously covered here:

http://lightswitch.adefwebserver.com/Blog/tabid/61/EntryId/3/Printing-With-LightSwitch.aspx

The disadvantages of that approach are:

You have to make a custom control / You have to be a programmer to make reports Printing in Silverlight renders images that are slightly fuzzy In this article, we will demonstrate creating and printing reports in LightSwitch using Microsoft Report Viewer Control.

Note, you will need Visual Studio Professional, or higher, to use the method described here.

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