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Latest Microsoft LightSwitch Blogs

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...

 

Excel Importer with Template Support

By Kostas Christodoulou on Thursday, July 14, 2011
Immediately after using Excel Importer extension for the first time and trying to see how this would fit into our new “want to be” business application framework, I realized that defining the column mappings every time was definitely an issue.

So I decided to implement and integrate to the original Excel Importer a mechanism for using Column Mapping Templates as an optional capability. I decided to give it back to the LightSwitch community, where the original idea (msdn.com Lightswitch Samples) came from. You can download the the extension here. Feel free, no better yet, feel obliged Winking smile, ...
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