Introduction
Visual Studio LightSwitch is Microsoft's
flexible development tool used for building business applications.
Visual Studio LightSwitch
is a new member of the Visual Studio family. It is a stand alone
application. According to Microsoft, Visual Studio LightSwitch is "the simplest
way to create business applications for the desktop or the cloud". Visual Studio
LightSwitch is a rapid application development (RAD) tool which is used to help
write data-centric line of business (LOB) applications.
Feature Of
LightSwitch
There are many features of
LightSwitch. Visual Studio LightSwitch supports Windows Azure, SQL Azure,
automatic data input validation etc. You can use the Visual Basic or Visual C#
language in your LightSwitch application. The feature table of Lightswitch is
shown below.
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Benefits Of LightSwitch
There are many benefits of LightSwitch. The
main benefits of LightSwitch are as follows:
- Simplify development
- Build a better application faster
- Customize using extensions
- Quickly add user-friendly features
- Speed Deployment and Updates
- Create a custom application for the way
you do business
- Build business applications like they were
created by a professional designer
- Easily add powerful authentication
features
- Evolve your application as business needs
change
Simplify development
The nonrational Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011
development environment simplifies the development implementation and provides
assistance when you need it.
Lightswitch allows users to create applications with a modern
multi-tier design that support both cloud and desktop clients, but with less
coding, though you can add Visual Basic or C# code.
Build a better application faster
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 includes many
screens for the most common types of business applications. It also contains
predefined data types like date, datetime, phone numbers and e-mail addresses
etc.
Customize using extensions
Using custom extensions like Picture and Text
layout extensions you can present your data on screen. Custom extensions like
Money and Phone Number are also included in LightSwitch. Using the custom
extensions you can change the appearance and behavior of your application.
Quickly add user-friendly features
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 have a user
friendly feature i.e. export data to Ms-Office Excel for easy sharing and
reporting. You can also create a table in Lightswitch from from SQL Server.
Speed Deployment and Updates
Using Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, you can
create one application that can be deployed to desktop clients and web clients.
You can choose the best deployment method for deploy the LightSwitch
application.
Create a custom application for the way you
do business
Using Visual Studio LightSwitch you can create
custom business application. In the Visual Studio LightSwitch you can apply
custom validation or custom rules.
Build business applications like they were
created by a professional designer
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 comes with an
extensible set of pre-built Application Shells that can give your application
the familiar feel of popular Microsoft software.
Easily add powerful authentication features
Visual Studio LightSwitch has an authentication
feature. This feature is the most powerful feature of LightSwitch. The Authentication
feature provides security to your LightSwitch application. In the Visual
Studio LightSwitch you can generate many users with their authorization. Using
the authentication feature of LightSwitch you can set user roles and permissions.
Evolve your application as business needs
change
The pre-built screens and components in Visual
Studio LightSwitch are fully extensible, so using additional features for
your application is fast and easy.
Summary
So Visual Studio LightSwitch has many features
and benefits. Visual Studio LightSwitch is used to build business applications.