How Do I: Export Data to a Word Mailing Labels Document
I’m going to start off my first “How Do I” post with a simple application that exports the application’s data to a Word Mailing Label Document. At the end of the blog you’ll find links to the the VS...
View ArticleHow Do I: Import Data While Running a LightSwitch Web Application
Importing data into a Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch application can be a bit tricky, especially if we are talking about a LightSwitch web application. Since I’ve heard several people ask how to...
View ArticleHow Do I: Import and Store a Data File
Today’s post is going to be a short one about how to import a file through a Visual Studio LightSwitch application (Desktop or Web) and store the data on the backend (e.g. SQL Server).Sometimes we want...
View ArticleOData Apps In LightSwitch, Part 1
Oh, Data!One of the cooler features that comes with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 Beta is it’s support for attaching to OData Services and exposing it’s own data as an OData Service.OData stands for...
View ArticleOData Apps In LightSwitch, Part 2
Hey All,I wanted to continue making some improvements to the OData Application we started in my last post OData Apps in LightSwitch, Part 1 (which also has the sample project uploaded in VB.NET now).At...
View ArticleOData Apps in LightSwitch (With Custom RIA Data Sources and Many to Many!),...
Update again: Attaching to a database to many to many relationships is now supported (in Visual Studio 2012 RTM) and the relationships will display in the entity designer just like any other...
View ArticleFinding Your LightSwitch Produced OData Services (Visual Studio 2012)
With the latest version of LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 you can now consume as well as produce OData services from the data sources managed by the LightSwitch middle-tier. But if we want to...
View ArticleLightSwitch – 10 Performance Tweaks Anyone Can Do
“HOW can I improve performance in my LightSwitch app?” – is a question that pops up in the MSDN Forums frequently enough (like here and here).I’ve got some basic tips below that show how to make some...
View ArticleASP.NET SignalR and LightSwitch (VS 2012 Update 2)!!!
Update - I uploaded the code and project to MSDN Code Gallery here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/LightSwitch-and-SignalR-4d7ff7a8 SignalR? What is that?SignalR is described as “Incredibly simple...
View ArticleOData Apps in Update 2–Querying data from Stack Overflow
OData ServicesI want a way to keep track of questions that people have about LightSwitch. And I want it to primarily use it on my mobile devices.Here’s what we got to work with to make this...
View ArticleFargo VS LightSwitch Team
Hello All,Time to start a new chapter in my life at Microsoft. I officiall started on the Visual Studio Lightswitch team here in Fargo, ND on April 4th.I should be posting some good stuff about...
View ArticleHTML Upload Control For LightSwitch SharePoint Apps!
-(And it’s available through NuGet!)For a while now I’ve been seeing quite a few requests from users for a simple, pluggable, HTML Control that can be used to upload files in a LightSwitch...
View ArticleGetting LightSwitch Web App Memory Dumps and so much more using KUDU
There’s an nice little diagnostic tool that is available for all Windows Azure Web Sites that I came across called KUDU.KUDU is one of those neat little things that is developed here at Microsoft that...
View ArticleWhat Version of Azure PowerShell am I running?
Unable to find a decent answer to this question on all of the internets I checked, I figured I'd better step up to the challenge and answer this simple question.So you've installed Azure PowerShell.Now...
View ArticleAzure Development with VMs with Azure SDK 2.3 and Update 2 RC
A new era of developing and testing in the cloud is upon us!(Well I may be exaggerating a bit)For a while now Microsoft has been working on improving our Develop and Test experience of web apps for all...
View ArticleVisual Studio Database Project + Web Project Into One Web Package. YES. FOR...
Visual Studio SQL Database Projects are super cool projects that let you create and manage your SQL databases in Visual Studio. They produce a .dacpac file that you can deploy to a SQL Database using...
View ArticleAzure Resource Manager Tools (Preview) for Visual Studio - Advanced Template...
The Azure Resource Manager Tools (Preview) for Visual Studio have been available for almost a week now, so I think it's time to move beyond the basic scenario and do something more advanced.Note: Not...
View Article3rd Party Controls Shout out - Syncfusion for LightSwitch
Visual Studio LightSwitch (Silverlight Client) Syncfusion ControlsI've seen plenty of questions in that past about how to export data from a LightSwitch app into Word or Excel, or how to do some basic...
View ArticleTypeScript Generic Collection Implementation, it's, you know, generic
I had the need for a Generic Collection like data structure recently while messing around in TypeScript (while making this goofy implementation of the Medical School / Resident Matching...
View ArticleGitHub Language Correlation for Jan 1 2014 - Feb 1 2015
GitHub seems like a great place to view some statistics regarding development languages.I wanted to see what I could find out there in regards to GitHub data.There were a couple choices I had: use...
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