It has been a busy month for the LightSwitch community! I have many wonderful extensions, articles, a release and even a e-book to share. If you have missed past content rollups, you can check them all out here: LightSwitch Community & Content Rollups.
Visual Studio 2013 Update2
| The LightSwitch team are particularly excited about the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 in May! We are glad, you the community, are also excited. You can find details in the Install Visual Studio 2013 Update blog post. |
Tech Ed
| Tech Ed North America 2014 took place this May 11-15 in Houston, Texas. Steve Lasker gave a talk titled Developing Office 365 Cloud Business Applications. He gives an overview of the Cloud App Model, anatomy of a SharePoint App and builds a Survey App during a product demonstration. A LightSwitch hands-on lab titled Developing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2013 with Visual Studio 2013 is also available online. |
LightSwitch Mobile Business Apps Succinctly
| Congratulations to Jan Van der Haegen on the release of his e-book, LightSwitch Mobile Business Apps Succinctly! This book shows how to use LightSwitch to create mobile line-of-business applications quickly. Topics include an overview of LightSwitch, customizing the UI, advanced programming principles, branding and publishing. A free copy of the book can be obtained at http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/lightswitchmobile after registration. |
RSSBus ADO.NET Providers
| RSSBus released several ADO.NET providers for LightSwitch. Check out their providers for Email, Twitter, RSS, Google, Facebook, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SimpleDB, Freshbooks, Xero, PowerShell, NetSuite, LDAP and SharePoint. A step-by-step walkthrough is available http://www.rssbus.com/kb/articles/ado-lightswitchria.rst. |
More Notable Content This Month
Did I miss anything significant? Post a comment below!
Extensions & packages released this month
There are many great controls available at Extensions on Visual Studio Gallery(there are almost 200!) and NuGet packages for LightSwitch.
Team Posts
- Install Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
- Attaching to SQL Views
- LightSwitch HTML Client API Reference Released
- Workaround for Publishing LightSwitch App to Azure Web Sites
Community Rock Star Articles
Thanks everyone for your awesome contributions in May!
- LightSwitch Dynamic Connection Strings Now Supported
- Audit logs in the Html5 client or cloud business app
- Using SAP Netweaver Gateway, SQL Azure and LightSwitch to create “actionable BI” Apps for Sharepoint on Office 365, an end-to-end walkthrough–Part 2
- Why your hyperlink won’t work the LS HTML client
- Why your hyperlink won’t work in the LS HTML client, part 2
- LightSwitch html5 SPA - Change Manager App
- LightSwitch html5 SPA - Health And Safety Incident Manager App
- LightSwitch html5 SPA - Risk Assessment App
- Using D3 Controls in ComponentOne Studio for LightSwitch HTML Client
- Creating A SharePoint Online Testing Site
- LightSwitch 2013 HTML Client – Easily add Multi Item Selection to your Lists and Tables!
Forum Answerers
Thanks to all our LightSwitch forums contributors! Simon Jones tops the contributors list for this month. Thank you, everyone, for helping make the LightSwitch community a better place. It’s selfless dedication like this that makes our community rock.
No. | Name | Answers | Posts | Helpful Votes |
1 | 16 | 47 | 16 | |
2 | 15 | 67 | 3 | |
3 | 14 | 82 | 13 | |
4 | 14 | 46 | 8 | |
5 | 11 | 29 | 10 | |
6 | 7 | 59 | 9 | |
7 | 4 | 28 | 7 | |
8 | 4 | 19 | 5 | |
9 | 3 | 27 | 5 | |
10 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Keep up the great work!
LightSwitch Team Community Sites
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Enjoy!
-Elizabeth Maher, Senior SDET, Visual Studio LightSwitch Team