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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 12/22/2011 9:41 PM

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The ComponentOne FlexGrid control from the Studio for Silverlight suite allows Visual Studio LightSwitch developers the freedom to implement complex solutions required of professional Line-Of-Business applications. This article will explore and demonstrate a small subset of the most common features of the C1FlexGrid control…

 

By Michael Washington on 10/16/2011 2:27 PM

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The Data Grid that is built-into LightSwitch is quite advanced. You will not really appreciate it until you attempt to duplicate its functionality manually. However, you may be faced with situations that require you to implement a Data Grid from scratch. This will allow you maximum flexibility in your application…


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