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Announcement: 3

Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility announcement

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    LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 Released
    Beth Massi - Microsoft Wednesday, 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 VS 2012

    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 2012 as well.

    Enjoy



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    Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit Now Available
    Beth Massi - Microsoft Wednesday, 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.

    Submit a bug
      Extending Visual Studio LightSwitch

     

    HAVE FUN!

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    Welcome to the Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility Forum
    Beth Massi - Microsoft Monday, 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!

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    An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException' occurred in System.Data.dll Additional information: Invalid column name 'Barry'.
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 490 Views | Created by wurry - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 1:34 PM | Last reply by wurry - Wednesday, May 15, 2019 1:35 PM
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    LightSwitch TreeView Custom Control

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    I'm building a quick app but I need to use a tree view. I created the custom control and it seems to be working but the issue I have is that it seems that LS is loading only the main nodes and it will ...
    Answered | 80 Replies | 30747 Views | Created by Massimo432 - Monday, November 1, 2010 11:47 PM | Last reply by reigh7 - Sunday, April 28, 2019 5:36 PM
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    Doesn't Add custom item template

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    I create a custom item template using extensibility project and click  add item in add new item dialog box its throw the exception. Object reference not set to an instance of ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 785 Views | Created by Abishake Abi - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 9:00 AM
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    Visual Studio removes props file definition from vcxproj file

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    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 883 Views | Created by Koto2 - Friday, October 26, 2018 10:49 AM
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    Visual Studio - Open project developed with Lightswitch

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    I have an old project developed with Lightswitch that i'm trying to open in Visual Studio 2015. When i open an ".sln" file for each of the modules of this project, all of the folders of the ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 1174 Views | Created by bp89 - Monday, May 28, 2018 11:19 AM | Last reply by Mr Yossu - Monday, May 28, 2018 3:55 PM
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    Can't Find Blank App (Native Portable) Option on New Project

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    Hi everyone, I'm starting to learn developing Android app using C# in Visual Studio. And as my first step I tried to follow this very simple tutorial ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 1750 Views | Created by The_C - Sunday, March 11, 2018 6:27 PM
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    when debugging vs custom vsix extension, the vs did not search into experimental hive .

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    I am building a custom extension. When debugging , the experimental vs does not find the dll file in "F:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_08b59335Exp" ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 1939 Views | Created by ddx1292680719 - Friday, March 2, 2018 9:54 AM
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    Problems Opening PDF file

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    I'm trying to open a PDF file and get the following message:  Unspecified Error: (Excep_FromHResult 0x80004005) How can I fix this?
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 2554 Views | Created by Cbut - Saturday, December 2, 2017 2:38 PM
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    Is Lightswitch part of Visual Studio 2017?

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    I have Visual Studio 2017 Community installed on my system. I don't see any way to build a Lightswitch project. Is there something I need to install? Where can I find instructions on doing this?
    Answered | 1 Replies | 3405 Views | Created by maulesr - Wednesday, August 30, 2017 4:04 PM | Last reply by Yuk Ding - Tuesday, September 5, 2017 8:30 AM
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    Visual Studio Trade Mark in Splash Screen gets cut off due to mismatch resolution

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    I have created one Visual Studio Extension application. I have added my Splash Screen in Package Definition file. But in some systems, Trade Mark of Visual Studio gets cut off in splash screen. Since ...
    Answered | 1 Replies | 1390 Views | Created by Selvaraj_Jaganathan - Tuesday, August 1, 2017 7:39 AM | Last reply by Yuk Ding - Monday, August 21, 2017 7:51 AM
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    Regarding implementing Undo/Redo operation for Adornment in the Visual studio editor.

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    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 1555 Views | Created by SomTiwari - Wednesday, April 26, 2017 10:09 AM | Last reply by Yuk Ding - Tuesday, May 2, 2017 2:34 AM
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    How to get the notification in visual studio, when Break point is inserted or removed.

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    Unanswered | 2 Replies | 1668 Views | Created by SomTiwari - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 12:28 PM | Last reply by SomTiwari - Wednesday, April 26, 2017 10:05 AM
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    Python tools for VS 2015 - Goodbye to Windows Phone Development

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    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 1565 Views | Created by Feleo - Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:35 PM | Last reply by Yuk Ding - Friday, March 31, 2017 8:34 AM
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    Is possible VSIX install in VS2015, VS2013 which i create from VS2015

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    Upgrading LightSwitch Extension Projects to Visual Studio 2013

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    Excel Importer for Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013

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Announcement: 3

Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility announcement

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    LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 Released
    Beth Massi - Microsoft Wednesday, 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 VS 2012

    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 2012 as well.

    Enjoy



  • Link
    Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit Now Available
    Beth Massi - Microsoft Wednesday, 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.

    Submit a bug
      Extending Visual Studio LightSwitch

     

    HAVE FUN!

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    Welcome to the Visual Studio LightSwitch Extensibility Forum
    Beth Massi - Microsoft Monday, 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!

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