Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility

Announcements

• LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for Visual Studio 11 Released

  Steve HoagMicrosoft EmployeeWednesday, March 14, 2012 8:12 PM

  We've just uploaded the updated version of the Extensibility Toolkit to the MSDN Extensions Gallery: LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for VS11

  The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries that target Visual Studio 11 and includes templates for creating the following LightSwitch extensions: LightSwitch Business Type, LightSwitch Control, LightSwitch Data Source, LightSwitch Screen Template, LightSwitch Shell, and LightSwitch Theme.

  Updated versions of the eight extensibility samples have been uploaded to the LightSwitch Extensibility Samples for VS 11as well.

  Enjoy

• Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit Now Available

  Beth MassiMicrosoft EmployeeWednesday, July 27, 2011 10:08 PM

  Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud. Professional developers can extend the functionality of LightSwitch by creating extensions using Visual Studio 2010 Professional, the Visual Studio SDK, and the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit. The toolkit provides project types for creating new LightSwitch Extension Libraries and includes templates for creating your own themes, shells, business types, controls, screen templates, and data sources.

  You can access the toolkit plus walkthroughs, samples and documentation here on the Developer Center. Please make sure you follow the instructions carefully for installing the toolkit and the prerequisites.

  
    Extending Visual Studio LightSwitch

   

  HAVE FUN!

• Welcome to the Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility Forum

  Beth MassiMicrosoft EmployeeMonday, August 23, 2010 10:17 PM

  Thank you for your interest in Visual Studio LightSwitch! This forum is for questions related to extending Visual Studio LightSwitch which is now available as of July 26th. For general questions and install troubleshooting please see the LightSwitch General forum.

  To get started learning how to extend LightSwitch please see :

  • Extending Visual Studio LightSwitch page on the Developer Center where you can download the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit and read walkthroughs on how to get started
  • LightSwitch Team Extensibility Samples that you can download to learn how to build many of the supported extension types
  • Advanced hands-on labs in the LightSwitch Training Kit where you will build and package an extension that can be reused by the Visual Studio LightSwitch end user

  Also make sure to visit the following resources:

  • Visual Studio LightSwitch Developer Center on MSDN
  • Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog
  • LightSwitch Beta Documentation on MSDN 

  If you have a bug to report or just want to make a suggestion please enter them through Connect: http://connect.microsoft.com/lightswitch

  Have fun!