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By Michael Washington on 8/19/2012 2:53 PM
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With the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012, ComponentOne has updated and released their Studio for LightSwitch
By Michael Washington on 2/11/2012 2:33 PM
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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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By Michael Washington on 2/8/2012 10:44 PM
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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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By Michael Washington on 2/5/2012 1:35 PM

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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…

By Michael Washington on 2/4/2012 10:48 AM

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Visual Studio LightSwitch allows you to create Business Type extensions. A Business Typeenables 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…

By Michael Washington on 1/30/2012 3:10 PM

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

 

By Michael Washington on 1/28/2012 7:06 AM

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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.

By Michael Washington on 11/19/2011 7:15 PM
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In this article we will create a simple chat application. If different users are using the same LightSwitch application, they will be able to chat with each other.

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By Michael Washington on 10/23/2011 1:30 PM
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Creating a Blank LightSwitch Shell was previously covered in Running a LightSwitch Application With A Blank Shell. However, that article was written before the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit was released, so it is not in the easier to modify...
By Michael Washington on 9/24/2011 10:35 PM

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In this Blog post, we will create a LightSwitch Control Extension that consists of a Button. The LightSwitch Control Extension will allow us to specify the color of each instance of the Button.

At this time, there is no other documentation anywhere describing how to create a LightSwitch Control Extension that is of type Command (used for Buttons)…

By Michael Washington on 8/14/2011 6:37 AM
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If you are not a Silverlight programmer, LightSwitch is still easy to use. You just need to use LightSwitch Control Extensions. It is important to note the difference between a Silverlight Custom Control, and a LightSwitch Control Extension.

Karol Zadora-Przylecki covers the difference in the article “Using Custom Controls to Enhance Your LightSwitch Application UI” (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch/archive/2011/01/13/using-custom-controls-to-enhance-lightswitch-application-ui-part-1.aspx).

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