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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 9/5/2011 9:36 AM
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The LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com now has multiple bloggers. I realized that the Tags menu is really the only way for people to find past Blogs.

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By Michael Washington on 5/23/2011 5:37 AM
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Note: You can try out this application live on this site at: http://lightswitchhelpwebsite.com/demos/calllog.aspx

Integrating a LightSwitch application into DotNetNuke has been covered before in Deploy Your LightSwitch Application As A DotNetNuke Module. The problem with that solution...
By Michael Washington on 4/23/2011 1:57 PM
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...

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