This book covers LightSwitch 2012, a part of the Visual Studio 2012 package, that is a rapid application deployment tool letting power users and administrators build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, and Web in just a few clicks, with no code required. It covers advanced features and light-coding solutions that users will hunger for soon after they begin building applications.

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

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a rapid application deployment tool that lets power users and administrators build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, and Web in just a few clicks, with no code required. But more advanced developers and business users will hunger for more: how do you design complex screens? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application? Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development answers these questions and more as authors Tim Leung and Yann Duran—both awarded Microsoft 2011 Community Contributor Awards for their LightSwitch expertise—cover this breakthrough product and its operations and structure under the covers. For serious developers building, enhancing and deploying advanced business applications using LightSwitch, Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development is the guide for going beyond the "click-and-you're-done" interface, while still maintaining the elegance and convenience of rapid application development.

Visual Studio LightSwitch : LightSwitch HTML Client HTML Client merupakan salah satu fitur baru pada Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012. Dengan HTML Client kita dapat membuat aplikasi yang dapat berjalan dengan baik pada perangkat mobile dan HTML Client juga menghasilkan tampilan yang sesuai dengan perangkat layar sentuh (touch screen).Untuk HTML Client tidak menggunakan Silverlight, tapi berbasis JQuery. Dan menggunakan control pada JQuery Mobile Library, sedangkan datajs library digunakan untuk mengakses server melalui OData. Proses pembuatan aplikasi pada HTML Client hampir sama dengan membuat Silverlight aplikasi, seperti konsep screen, entity, content item dan control. Tetapi ada beberapa perbedaan fundamental yang harus diketahui antara keduanya. Pada Silverlight client memungkinkan pengguna untuk membuka beberapa screen dan menjalankan beberapa task secara bersamaan. Sedangkan untuk HTML Client dirancang untuk melakukan single task pada satu waktu. -ebookuid- www.ebooku.id #ebookuid

"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. ... You learn how to use LightSwitch to buld modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express ..."--Back cover.

Create dynamic business intelligence (BI) solutions for SharePoint faster and with more capabilities than previously possible. With this book, you’ll learn the entire process—from high-level concepts to development and deployment—for building data-rich BI applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch, SQL Server 2012, and a host of related Microsoft technologies. You’ll learn practical techniques and patterns necessary to use all of these technologies together as you build an example application through the course of the book, step by step. Discover how to solve real problems, using BI solutions that will evolve to meet future needs. Learn the fundamentals of SharePoint, LightSwitch, and SQL Server 2012 Get a solid grounding in BI application basics and database design principles Use LightSwitch to build a help desk app, including data model design and SharePoint data integration Build a tabular cube with Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) Dive into the data visualization stack, including Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services Create reports with Excel Services, Report Builder, and PowerView Use tips and tricks for setting up your BI application development environment

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