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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development

By : Jayaram Krishnaswamy
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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development

By: Jayaram Krishnaswamy

Overview of this book

<p>Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new development tool for building business applications for the desktop, the web, and the cloud with ease. You can easily do most of the designing for your application, but for building business applications you need to acquire the right skills. With this book you will gain confidence in working with LightSwitch, and the skills you acquire will greatly help you to develop applications yourself.<br /><br />This Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development book is dedicated to giving you hands-on experience, when it comes to developing applications on LightSwitch. Everything, right from downloading the software to creating your application to deploying it, is discussed extensively. All this is laid out in an easy to understand and step-by-step format.<br /><br />You will learn how to set up your database and link to the data whether it is on a local or remote database. Once you know how to work with data, you will then learn to set up screens and use screen templates. Work with entities and LightSwitch specific data types; query and filter data with designer and code. Write simple and complex queries with and without writing code. You will also write custom code using the built-in event handlers. <br /><br />No business software can function without addressing security issues and Visual Studio LightSwitch has a rock solid, deceptively simple way to handle security and you will learn to do this from scratch with ASP.NET. Once the application is built you will explore the different ways to deploy it.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Mihail Mateev is a senior software development engineer in Infragistics Inc. He worked as a Software developer and team leader on WPF and Silverlight Line of Business production lines of the company. Now, he works as a Technical evangelist at Infragistics. Mihail is also a consultant for the products of Infragistics, related to Visual Studio LightSwitch.

Mihail worked in various areas related to technology with Microsoft: Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone 7, Visual Studio LightSwitch, WCF RIA Services, MS SQL Server, and Windows Azure.

Mihail did presentations for .Net and Silverlight user groups in Bulgaria. He has experience with GIS system over .Net framework. He worked for more than five years in ESRI Bulgaria as a Software developer and a trainer. For several years, Mihail lectured about Geographic Information Systems in Sofia University's "St. Kliment Ohridski," Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. Mihail is also a lecturer of Computer Systems in the University of the Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Geodesy in Sofia in a computer-aided Engineering Department. Mihail holds Master's degrees in Structural Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Informatics.

Over the past ten years, Mihail has written articles for Bulgarian Computer World magazine and blogged about .Net technologies. He is a contributor to "Professional Silverlight 4 (Willey)" and a reviewer of "Developing Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch" (Packt Publishing).

Mohit Chakraborty is a developer in the Visual Studio LightSwitch team. His work primarily focuses on the project system, build, and debugging experience, and the extensibility system.

Before joining the current team, he worked on developing Microsoft's Backup and Recovery solution called Data Protection Manager. Before that, he worked for Trilogy India, where he worked on a Business Intelligence solution for the auto industry.

Mohit has done his M.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2004.