Beginning Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Development (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) - Softcover

Accelerate and simplify application development with Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

As Microsoft's newest offering for speeding up and simplifying the process of application development, LightSwitch allows you to create applications without writing a single line of code. This full-color book presents you with a thorough introduction to LightSwitch, and then demonstrates how to use it to quickly create applications. As you become familiar with the various technologies that exist behind a LightSwitch application, you'll acquire a better understanding of how the process works. In addition, sample programs help drive home the material covered in each chapter, while a guided tour of the creation of a small business application using LightSwitch serves to demonstrate the capabilities of this amazing tool.

Beginning Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Development:

• Details how to customize LightSwitch applications

• Escorts you through a LightSwitch application development life cycle

• Examines ways to work with simple data screens

• Shares techniques for working with master-detail data screens

• Walks you through using methods, buttons, and command bars

• Drills down essential information about authentication and access control

• Addresses Microsoft Office integration

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