Visual Studio LightSwitch provides the fastest and easiest way to create Line-Of-Business, Forms-Over-Data applications. Previously LightSwitch produced only Silverlight applications. Now with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012, LightSwitch now allows you to communicate with its security and business layer through OData…

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NOTE: If you are using LightSwitch 2013 Update 2 (or higher) you must add compatibilityMode="Framework20SP1" to the "machineKey" in the LightSwitch Web.config (for example: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2012/10/23/cryptographic-improvements-in-asp-net-4-5-pt-2.aspx



Note: You can try out this application live on this site at: http://lightswitchhelpwebsite.com/demos/calllog.aspx

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NOTE: Please see Easy DotNetNuke LightSwitch Deployment, for an easier method to use LightSwitch in a DotNetNuke website

DotNetNuke has long been known as one of the easiest and most powerful web content management frameworks.

Combined with LightSwitch, the easiest way to create data driven applications, you have the ability to create and deploy “Line-Of-Business” applications quickly and easily.

An important thing to note, is that you can use your existing DotNetNuke users and roles with your LightSwitch applications.

This is really important if your already have accounts and roles.

You don’t want to require your users to learn a new username and password, and need to log into, each application.

Deploying your LightSwitch applications in DotNetNuke allows a seamless user experience.

What You Need:

DotNetNuke 5 (using ASP.NET 4.0) LightSwitch Beta 2...