Visual Studio LightSwitch - General (Beta) announcement

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  THIS FORUM HAS MOVED
  Beth Massi Microsoft Employee Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:53 PM

  Visual 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! 

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  Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 Released with Go Live License!
  Beth Massi Microsoft Employee Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:38 PM

  We 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 17^th. 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!

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  LightSwitch Beta 2 Learning Resources - New Developer Center!
  Beth Massi Microsoft Employee Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:01 PM

  Hello 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.

  • LightSwitch Learning Center
  • What's New in Beta 2?
  • Beta 2 How Do I Videos
  • Beta 2 Samples

  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.

  • LightSwitch Team Blog
  • Beth Massi's Blog
  • Robert Green's Blog
  • Matt Thalman's Blog

  Also check out the Dev Center Commuity page for more from the LightSwitch community.

  Have fun!