Channel 9 - Entries tagged with LightSwitch

TWC9: Update 2 CTP4 Go Live, Office 2013 Dev Tools, Kinect code and more

Brian Peek, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 19:20:42 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian Peek discuss the week's top developer news, including;

[0:42] March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling)
[2:07] Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S. Somasegar)
[3:33] Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0 (Andy Lewis)
[4:49] Announcing a New Preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client
[6:07] Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4 (Beth Massi)
[6:40] MetroAppSite: Free, Open Source Metro-Style Website Templates for Your Windows Store Apps (Aaron Stannard)
[7:35] Recording of Webinar 'Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps' by Gill Cleeren (Gill Cleeren)
[9:01] Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 1 (Gill Cleeren)
[9:44] Easy Access to Kinect for Windows Sample Code (Ben Lower)
[10:34] Interpolation Tricks

Picks of the Week!

Dan's Pick of the Week: [12:06] Unity Windows Store apps open beta, and Channel 9 Live event!
Brian's Pick of the Week: [12:52] Panoramic Camera Head

TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, Windows Phone 8, Hilo and more...

Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:32:22 GMT

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including;

[0:33] Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Now Available! (S. Somasegar)
[3:23] Productivity Power Tools 2012
[5:09] Build a Companion WP8 App for My Windows 8 App (Joelcitizen)
[5:55] A Lap Around the Windows Phone 8 SDK (Nick Randolph)
[7:04] Windows Phone 8 Training Kit
[8:04] Async pack for Visual Studio 2012: why it’s useful also for Windows Phone 8 projects (Matteo Pagani)
[9:35] Deploying and Debugging Windows 8 Apps on Microsoft Surface (Bernhard)
[10:10] Developing an end-to-end Windows Store app using C++ and XAML: Hilo (Windows) - Book Download, Hilo C++ sample, [Found via: Jason Haley - Interesting Finds: November 28, 2012]
[10:47] Building a LightSwitch HTML Client: eBay Daily Deals (Andy Kung)

Picks of the Week!

Dan's Pick of the Week: [11:41] Maelstrom
Brian's Pick of the Week: [14:34] LOTR in LEGO

OData Support and HTML Clients in LightSwitch

Robert Green — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:40:04 GMT

In this episode, Beth Massi joins us to demonstrate some cool new features in LightSwitch. First, she shows us how LightSwtich now has built-in support for OData. Then, she shows us how to use the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview to build a cross-browser, mobile web client.

Building Business Applications with LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2012

Anthony de Bruyn — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:31:25 GMT

Abstract
Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to create business applications for the desktop and cloud. In Visual Studio 2012 we've opened up the LightSwitch application architecture by embracing the OData protocol, making LightSwitch also the simplest way to create a Data Service. LightSwitch continues to simplify the development process by letting you concentrate on the business logic, while LightSwitch handles the common tasks for you. In this demo-heavy session, see end-to-end how to build and deploy a data-centric business application using LightSwitch and how to leverage Data Services created with LightSwitch to make data and business logic available through other applications. In this session you'll gain an understanding of the LightSwitch application architecture and learn advanced techniques for customizing a LightSwitch application.

Speaker
Jay Schmelzer is a Director of Program Management on the Visual Studio Team at Microsoft. Jay and his team are responsible for the Visual Studio design-time tools and runtime components used to build line of business applications. That includes the Visual Studio support for building Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Azure solutions, Visual Studio LightSwitch and Visual Studio's data binding and data consumption experiences. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jay was a partner with a leading consulting firm and specialized in the design and development of enterprise applications.

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Early Look at the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client

Beth Massi — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:07:33 GMT

In a more dynamic market than ever, Enterprises want their line-of-business applications to be accessible at any time from any device without sacrificing quality, agility, or time-to-market. This is why we are proud to announce that developers using Visual Studio LightSwitch will be able to create applications that can be used on any device that supports HTML5!

In this interview, Joe Binder, Program Manager on the LightSwitch Team, gives us an early preview of where the team is headed with supporting HTML clients. He walks through the design experience as well as showing us how easy it is to customize styling and controls.

For more information, please see the team blog: Announcing the LightSwitch HTML Client

And stay tuned for more news as it unfolds on the LightSwitch Developer Center.

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Episode 55 - Visual Studio LightSwitch with Jay Schmelzer

Wade Wegner — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:03:04 GMT

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow.

In this episode, Wade is joined by Jay Schmelzer—Principal Director of PM in Visual Studio Biz Apps—to discuss Visual Studio LightSwitch and its relationship to Windows Azure. Jay takes the time to explain the purpose of LightSwitch and show multiple demonstrations of how you can use services in the Windows Azure Platform to build line of business applications.

In the news:

Walkthrough of a Real-World LightSwitch Application used at Microsoft

Beth Massi — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:06:43 GMT

In this video, I interview a couple of LightSwitch team members, Mike Droney (Tester) and Sheel Shah (PM), as they walk me through a real application that was built for our Admins in order to track hardware assets across the developer division. Mike and Sheel talk about the requirement gathering and development processes as well as some of the advanced features of the application. They were able to build a working prototype in no time and then used an iterative development approach to add more and more features that users wanted. LightSwitch let them concentrate on business value and user productivity and not worry about any of the plumbing required to build a modern Silverlight, n-tier application with a lot of advanced features including a generic report builder.

Their application is based on LightSwitch Beta 2, which is available for the public to download today! To access the download & start learning LightSwitch please visit the LightSwitch Developer Center.

And for more LightSwitch resources please visit the LightSwitch Team Blog and ask questions in the LightSwitch Forums.

Enjoy!

Bytes by MSDN: Dave Mendlen and Tim Huckaby discuss Visual Studio 2010 and Intellitrace

Bytes by MSDN — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:30:51 GMT

One of the most talked about features in Visual Studio 2010 is IntelliTrace. Dave Mendlen, Senior Director at Microsoft, and Tim Huckaby, founder of InterKnowlogy, cover the latest and greatest with Visual Studio 2010, including LightSwitch, Intellitrace and the most recent Feature Pack. Tune in to find out why Dave refers to IntelliTrace as a “time machine.”

About Dave Mendlen

Dave Mendlen is the Senior Director, Developer Platform and Tools. Prior to this role, he served as the speech writer for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. In his time at Microsoft, he was the Director of Web Services strategy in the Developer Platform and Evangelism division at Microsoft responsible for driving Web Services excitement and standards across the industry. He has also served as the Director of Windows Product Management responsible for the marketing of Windows XP Home, Pro, Tablet PC and Windows XP Media Center Edition. He started at Microsoft in the developer division and served as the lead product planner on .NET and Visual Studio .NET driving a team to bring web services and .NET to millions of developers.

About Tim Huckaby

Tim Huckaby is the Founder of InterKnowlogy, experts in Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Platforms, and has 25+ years experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, an MVP and serves on multiple Microsoft councils and boards. Currently, Tim is focused on RIA & Rich Client Technologies like WPF, VSTO, Surface, Silverlight, Windows 7 Touch, and Windows Phone 7. He has been called a "Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution" by the press. Tim has been awarded multiple times for the highest-rated keynote for Microsoft and numerous other technology conferences around the world and is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events. Tim has also done keynote demos for numerous Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

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MSDN Radio: Switching the Lights on with Beth Massi

MSDN Online Media — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:13:58 GMT

Application development is working with data and as the tools become more refined, our jobs become easier and less code is required. The challenge is getting the code right. The latest release of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch brings a great tool for working with data in a streamlined way. It logically organizes the project by data, but behind the scenes is built on Microsoft .NET. This week we talk with Beth Massi on what’s exciting and possible with LightSwitch. This show is hosted by Mike Benkovich and Mithun Dhar.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. For previous and upcoming shows visit www.MSDNRadio.com.

Guest: Beth Massi, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Beth Massi is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio BizApps team at Microsoft and a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. She has over 15 years of industry experience building business applications and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. You can find her on a variety of developer sites including MSDN Developer Centers, Channel 9, and her blog www.BethMassi.com. Follow her on twitter @BethMassi.

MSDN Radio: Talking with John Alexander about LightSwitch

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:20:36 GMT

This week on MSDN Radio we're posting an interview with Mike Benkovich and John Alexander. Tune in as they talk about features of the new Microsoft Visual Studio tool, LightSwitch.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Visit www.MSDNRadio.com for previous and upcoming shows.

Consultant, Author, and Coach John Alexander is a recognized Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), has served as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Kansas City Region for the last twelve years, and is a Managing Partner at AJI Software. Experienced in the delivery of scalable, stable, and open enterprise-level .NET applications, John is an industry recognized trainer, consultant, speaker and writer on the Microsoft .NET vision and implementation at both the technical and business decision maker level. He has also coached several teams of developers, including one that was directly responsible for placing that organization on CIO Magazine's Agile 100 List. In addition, John co-authored the bestselling Professional SharePoint 2007 Development, published by Wrox Press.

Connected Show Podcast - Steve Marx on Azure

Brian Johnson — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:39:00 GMT

In this episode, the one and only Windows Azure Tactical Strategist, Steve Marx, joins Dmitry and Peter to give us an update on the Windows Azure platform. Steve talks about common real world Windows Azure use patterns, including storage and compute instance configurations.

Steve uses some strategic tactics to tell us what’s in the tea leaves for the future of Azure. Peter also responds to “cat ladies & acne-laden teenagers” by sharing “The Memo”.

MSDN Radio: Visual Studio LightSwitch with John Stallo and Jay Schmelzer

MSDN Online Media — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:48:00 GMT

This week on MSDN Radio, John Stallo and Jay Schmelzer from the Microsoft Visual Studio team will talk about LightSwitch—a new tool that allows you to easily and quickly build high-quality business applications for the desktop, the web, and the cloud. This MSDN Radio is hosted by Mithun Dhar.

MSDN Radio is a weekly Developer talk-show that helps answer your questions about the latest Microsoft news, solutions, and technologies. We dive into the challenges of deciphering today’s technology stack. Visit www.MSDNRadio.com to register for upcoming shows or watch previous shows on-demand.

Guests: John Stallo, Lead Program Manager and Jay Schmelzer, Group Program Manager; Microsoft Corporation

John Stallo is a Lead Program Manager on the Visual Studio LightSwitch product team. Born in Perth, Western Australia, he has worked on a variety of Visual Studio developer tools including Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services, Data design-time, and Class Designer, and is passionate about improving developer productivity.

Jay Schmelzer is the Group Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team at Microsoft. Jay and his team are responsible for the Visual Studio design-time tools and runtime components used to build applications that leverage Microsoft Office client and server products, many of the Visual Studio features vital to end-to-end application development experience including Data Design-time, building and consuming WCF services and Deployment, as well as the application programmability and extensibility available in Visual Studio Tools for Applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jay was a partner with a leading consulting firm and specialized in the design and development of enterprise applications. Jay has authored several articles and books on application development and is a frequent speaker at conferences.

Steve Anonsen and John Rivard: Inside LightSwitch

Charles — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:08:00 GMT

"Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool aimed at easily building data-driven applications, such as an inventory system or a basic customer relationship management system."

Typically, when making difficult things easy, the price is solving a set of very difficult technical problems. In this case, the LightSwitch engineering team needed to remove the necessity for non-programmer domain experts to think about application tiers (e.g., client, web server, and database) when constructing data-bound applications for use in their daily business lives. LightSwitch is designed for non-programmers, but it also offers the ability to customize and extend it, which will most likely be done by experienced developers (see Beth Massi's Beyond the Basics interview to learn about some of the more advanced capabilities).

This conversation isn't really about how to use LightSwitch (or how to extend it to meet your specific needs)—that's already been covered. Rather, in this video we meet the architects behind LightSwitch, Steve Anonsen and John Rivard, focusing on how LightSwitch is designed and what problems it actually solves as a consequence of the design. Most of the time is spent at the whiteboard, discussing architecture and solutions to some hard technical problems. This is Going Deep, so we will open LightSwitch's hood and dive into the rabbit hole.

Enjoy!

For more information on LightSwitch, please see:

Visual Studio LightSwitch Developer Center

Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog

Visual Studio LightSwitch Forums

Visual Studio LightSwitch - Beyond the Basics

Beth Massi — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:04:00 GMT

In this interview with Joe Binder, a Program Manager on the LightSwitch team, we discuss the LightSwitch application framework architecture and how a LightSwitch application is built on top of well-known technologies like Silverlight, MVVM, RIA Services, and Entity Framework. Joe shows us how to modify the behavior of a screen and how it exposes the commanding pattern in an easy-to-use way. He also shows us how to extend the UI with our own custom Silverlight controls, as well as how to connect our own data sources using RIA Services.

For an introduction to LightSwitch please see this interview:
Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch

For more information on LightSwitch, please see:

Visual Studio LightSwitch Developer Center

Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog

Visual Studio LightSwitch Forums

Enjoy,
-Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch

Dan Fernandez — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:35:00 GMT

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool aimed at building data-driven applications, like an inventory system or a basic customer relationship management system incredibly easy.

LightSwitch automatically generates the user interface in Silverlight for a data source and, with no code, you can create, read, update and delete data.

Watch the demos and see how you can build, customize, and extend LightSwitch applications including changing themes, templates, adding custom validation, providing smart data types, and deploying to Windows Azure.

The free, public beta will be available starting August 23rd.