Visual Studio LightSwitch - General (Beta)
Questions and discussions around Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta release.
Announcements
THIS FORUM HAS MOVED
Beth MassiMicrosoft EmployeeTuesday, July 26, 2011 4:53 PMVisual Studio LightSwitch has released! Download the release version and check out our team blog post for more resources and install notes:
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM is Here!
This BETA forum is now closed. Please ask all your LightSwitch questions in the RTM forum here:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/threads
Thanks to all of you that downloaded the beta and provided feedback and help here in this forum. We appreciate all your hard work! Now please continue to support the growing LightSwitch community in our new forum.
Enjoy!
Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 Released with Go Live License!
Beth MassiMicrosoft EmployeeTuesday, March 15, 2011 5:38 PMWe are extremely happy to announce the release of Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ Beta 2! MSDN subscribers can access LightSwitch Beta 2 today and public availability will be Thursday, March 17th. Please see Jason Zander’s post that walks through some of the new features.
- MSDN Subscribers download LightSwitch Beta 2 now!
- The general public can download Beta 2 on Thursday at 10AM PST here
Read What’s New in Beta 2 for information on new capabilities in this release. We’d also like to announce that Beta 2 comes with a “Go Live” license which means you can now start using Visual Studio LightSwitch for production projects!
We’ve also done some major updates to the LightSwitch Developer Center with How Do I videos based on Beta 2 as well as a new and improved Learning Center and Beta 2 samples to get you up to speed fast, whether you’re a beginner or advanced developer. We’ll be rolling out more in-depth content and training in the coming weeks so keep checking back.
INSTALLATION NOTES: Visual Studio 2010 Express, Professional, Premium, Test Professional or Ultimate users must install Visual Studio 2010 SP1 before installing Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2. Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 users should uninstall Beta 1 before installing Beta 2. Also see the Beta 2 readme for late breaking issues. These are known incompatible releases with Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 (see links for details on compatibility and workarounds):
- Visual Studio Async CTP - known compatibility details(see *Async CTP Issues with VS2010 SP1* announcement)
- Windows SDK 7.1 - known compatibility details
- Help Viewer Power Tool – known compatibility details
PROJECT UPGRADE NOTES: Due to the many improvements in Beta 2, projects created in Beta 1 cannot be opened or upgraded. You will need to recreate your projects and copy over any user code that you have added. You can get to the user code files by switching to File View in the Solution Explorer. Please note that some APIs have changed so you may need to update some of your code appropriately. At this point we do not plan to introduce breaking changes post-Beta 2 that will cause you to need to recreate your Beta 2 projects.
We want to hear from you! Please visit the LightSwitch Forums to ask questions and interact with the team and community. Have you found a bug? Please report them on Microsoft Connect.
Have fun building business applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch!
LightSwitch Beta 2 Learning Resources - New Developer Center!
Beth MassiMicrosoft EmployeeTuesday, March 15, 2011 6:01 PMHello LightSwitch developers!
We've got a lot of new content and a fresh look for the LightSwitch Developer Center on MSDN (just click the "Home" tab above). Check it out! Whether you are just beginning or have been using LightSwitch for a while, we've got something for you.
We've also done a major overhaul to the LightSwitch Developer Learning Center in order to organize learning topics, blog articles, tips & tricks, and documentation better and allows us to easily roll out more training content each week. You can access training, samples, How Do I Videos, articles and more here.
We'll also be updating the Training Kit (that you can also access from the Learning Center) on Thursday for the public release.
Also check out our team blogs and bloggers for more information on LightSwitch. We're in the process of updating all our Beta 1 blog posts to Beta 2 so keep checking back.
Also check out the Dev Center Commuity page for more from the LightSwitch community.
Have fun!
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Trial version
juanmontoya Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:13 PM - 02577

Thank-you to all who participated in this forum
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LIGHTSWITCH DOWNLOAD LINK FOR MSDN SUBSCRIBERS
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T Minus 26minutes
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How to approach nested tables referring to a collection of items
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open source sale/purchase systems
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Great News from Telerik - Telerik goodness comes to Lightswitch!
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LightSwitch: We Now Have Our 'Killer App'
ADefwebserverMVPSunday, July 24, 2011 2:27 PM - 83239

Can a "view" be created in LightSwitch Application?
Cromanty Sunday, July 24, 2011 3:40 PM - 102410

launch updates????
AbnerPiff Monday, July 25, 2011 11:12 PM - 42763

Lightswitch Build Failure
JayAtSoftServ Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:46 AM - 142525

Composition in LightSwitch
Kostas ChristodoulouMicrosoft Community ContributorMonday, July 25, 2011 7:23 AM - 22406

is it possible to add collumns to entity via code?
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Launch Update
Steve HoagMicrosoft EmployeeTuesday, July 26, 2011 5:05 AM - 202543

Launch announced but website not updated???
Frank Claassen Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:32 AM - 22823

Will the RTM have new shell(s)?
Ben Hayat Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:21 AM - 133104

My LightSwitch Desktop Application Won't Run on Windows XP SP3
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Newbie - Details screen with children and grandchildren
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Id field of type Guid and control of how this is named
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