This book covers using Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013-2015 to create LightSwitch HTML Client, and Cloud Business Applications. This book describes creating HTML web applications and SharePoint 2013 provider-hosted applications. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the use and provide examples of, and to explain, important concepts of the LightSwitch technology used to create the applications. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create forms over data, line of business applications. It allows you to build applications for the desktop and the Internet cloud. It does this by providing a tool that allows you to quickly and easily define and connect to your data, program your security and business rules, and expose this via OData to practically any "client" such as mobile devices and web pages. [Publishers note: This book is mostly identical to the book: Creating HTML 5 Websites and Cloud Business Apps Using LightSwitch In Visual Studio 2013] Table of Contents Chapter 1: Understanding the LightSwitch HTML Client Chapter 2: Create an End-To-End LightSwitch HTML Application Chapter 3: Deploy a LightSwitch Application to Office 365/SharePoint Online Chapter 4: The LightSwitch HTML Client API Chapter 5: Working With Data Chapter 6: Working With Screens Chapter 7: Application Navigation Chapter 8: Advanced HTML Client API Chapter 9: Using ServerApplicationContext Chapter 10: Using MVC With Visual Studio LightSwitch Chapter 11: Using WCF RIA Services Chapter 12: Cloud Business Apps

This book covers using Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 to create LightSwitch HTML Client, and Cloud Business Applications. This book describes creating HTML web applications and SharePoint 2013 provider-hosted applications. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the use and provide examples of, and to explain, important concepts of the LightSwitch technology used to create the applications. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create forms over data, line of business applications. It allows you to build applications for the desktop and the Internet cloud. It does this by providing a tool that allows you to quickly and easily define and connect to your data, program your security and business rules, and expose this via OData to practically any "client" such as mobile devices and web pages. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Understanding the LightSwitch HTML Client Chapter 2: Create an End-To-End LightSwitch HTML Application Chapter 3: Deploy a LightSwitch Application to Office 365/SharePoint Online Chapter 4: The LightSwitch HTML Client API Chapter 5: Working With Data Chapter 6: Working With Screens Chapter 7: Application Navigation Chapter 8: Advanced HTML Client API Chapter 9: Using ServerApplicationContext Chapter 10: Using MVC With Visual Studio LightSwitch Chapter 11: Using WCF RIA Services Chapter 12: Cloud Business Apps

How to get started creating applications using this exciting easy to use Microsoft C# framework. Using over 250 diagrams and images, this book describes what Blazor is, what makes it different, and how to use it to create business applications. The tutorials walk you through 100% of the required code to build the applications and examples. Chapter 1: What is Blazor? Chapter 2: Getting Started Chapter 3: Blazor Binding, Events and Parameters Chapter 4: Creating a Step-By-Step End-To-End Database Server-Side Blazor Application Chapter 5: Blazor Forms and Validation Chapter 6: Implementing State Management in Blazor Chapter 7: Creating Blazor Templated Components Chapter 8: Blazor JavaScript Interop Chapter 9: A Demonstration of Simple Server Side Blazor Cookie Authentication Chapter 10: Deploying a Server Side Blazor Application To Azure

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create forms over data, line of business applications and build applications for the desktop and the internet cloud by providing a tool that allows you to quickly and easily define and connect to your data, program your security and business rules, expose this via OData to practically any 'client' such as mobile devices and web pages. This book will demonstrate its use, explain, and provide examples of important concepts of its API (Application Programming Interface). Over the past year I have created more than thirty Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client projects. While creating those projects, I ran into challenges that required me to go deep into the LightSwitch HTML Client API. This book covers the core concepts as well as the use of advanced techniques that I consider important to properly leverage this incredible tool. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Understanding the LightSwitch HTML Client What Is Visual Studio LightSwitch? The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client Single Page Application (because faster is better) Chapter 2: Create an End-To-End LightSwitch HTML Application How Does A LightSwitch HTML Client Application Work? Chapter 3: The LightSwitch HTML Client API The Binding Pattern Promises Chapter 4: Working With Data Searching Data Setting Defaults Dynamically Creating Records Deleting Data Chapter 5: Working With Screens The Visual Collection API JavaScript Chapter 6: Application Navigation Show a Message Box, and Respond To a User Selection Create a Custom Modal Picker by Using A Popup Copy a Record - Show Add Edit Dialog with Initialized Parameters Navigating to a New Screen (and Returning) After Editing -- Return Focus and Browser Position to the Item Chapter 7: Advanced Topics Using ServerApplicationContext Using WCF RIA Services Advanced JavaScript Controls Use a JQuery Mobile Control Prevent JQuery Mobile from Overriding Custom Controls Theming LightSwitch HTML for the Desktop

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning author Tim Leung explains how to build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, web, and mobile devices in just a few clicks—with no code required—using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015. This book explains the basics of Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015 plus new features and key advanced topics that every Microsoft developer needs to know to create modern data services and build clients that can run on multiple devices. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 is a rapid application deployment tool that simplifies and shortens the time needed to develop business applications. The basics are very easily understood but more advanced users will hunger for more. How do you design complex layouts? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application against malicious use? Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 answers these questions and more as author Tim Leung—winner of a Microsoft 2011 Community Contributor Award for his LightSwitch expertise—covers this breakthrough product in detail. For serious developers building, enhancing, and deploying advanced business applications using LightSwitch makes sense because they can benefit from the elegance, convenience, and cost savings afforded by rapid application development before going beyond the "click-and-you're-done" interface to include the extra value and depth of coding expertise that their clients value. What You Will Learn: Build Desktop and HTML5 business applications for PC or mobile devices Create compelling user interfaces that can support multiple languages Fine tune your application with C#, VB.NET, JQuery, JavaScript, and CSS code Integrate with mapping, GPS, and location services Provide email notification, and Microsoft Office compatible data exports Enable users to carry out advanced searches on data Build screen controls that you can share with other developers

Market_Desc: It's assumed that the reader will have a basic understanding of simple design techniques (such as use cases); a knowledge of databases (what a data table or a data entity is): familiarity with user interface terms (screens, pages, data grids, text boxes, controls, layout, etc.); a basic user-level knowledge of Excel and Word (such as entering, copying and pasting data, etc.); and some experience with programming languages (Visual Basic for Applications used in Microsoft Office products is enough, C# or Visual Basic is welcomed).· Primary audience: Development Consultant, Business Analyst with development knowledge, Enterprise Developers using .NET· Secondary audience: Fans of Rapid Application Development and Prototyping Techniques Special Features: " LightSwitch is designed to add tremendous value to the broad level business user who needs to create, modify, and distribute information, the product features numerous modifiable templates for the user to deploy without coding knowledge." Developers using Microsoft Access (or Visual FoxPro) will find LightSwitch a great product for creating .NET applications -- the product has a very low entry barrier for .NET development." This book not only has simple example programs, but also walks through a complete small business application using LightSwitch to demonstrate the capabilities of the tool." Following the rule of 80/20, this book thorough covers the most frequently-used (80 percent of activities) developers encounter during their everyday activities. About The Book: As Microsoft's newest offering for simplifying application development, LightSwitch opens the development door to creating applications without writing code. This introductory, full-color book shows you how to quickly create, modify, and distribute information for your business with LightSwitch. Packed with simple example programs, this beginner-level resource guides you through a complete small business application using LightSwitch to demonstrate the capabilities of this exciting new tool. You'll explore the most common application development issues that developers encounter on a daily basis and learn how LightSwitch makes them easier to handle with solutions that streamline application development without requiring code.

Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch® Unleashed Alessandro Del Sole Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch–from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques. You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces. Implement features such as screen navigation, data interaction, paging, and Excel export, with absolutely no coding Build simple data-centric applications and add power to them with relationships and details Rapidly create customized queries, filters, sorts, and reports Aggregate data from many locations, including SharePoint, SQL Server, and the cloud Simplify the implementation of application-level data validation Protect your applications with authentication and authorization Fine tune your code for scalability and performance Streamline deployment to local computers, web servers, and the Windows Azure cloud Use .NET code to define custom behaviors related to data and the user interface Understand how LightSwitch applications are architected and how they are handled by Visual Studio Use LightSwitch with other Visual Studio tools to manage the entire application life cycle Efficiently debug LightSwitch code–and create code that’s easier to debug Category: Microsoft Programming Covers: LightSwitch User Level: Intermediate—Advanced ON THE WEB: Download all examples and source code presented in this book as they are available from informit.com/title/9780672335532