Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed [Paperback]

Alessandro Del Sole (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 5, 2012 | ISBN-10: 0672335530 | ISBN-13: 978-0672335532 | Edition: 1

Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch® Unleashed

Alessandro Del Sole

 

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch represents a breakthrough in business application development for Windows clients, the Web, and the cloud. Using this new tool, you can build powerful data-centric applications with far less code than ever before. Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed is the first comprehensive, start-to-finish guide to this powerful new tool. Written by longtime Visual Basic expert and Microsoft MVP Alessandro Del Sole, this book covers everything Microsoft developers need to know to make the most of LightSwitch–from the absolute basics to the most advanced enterprise techniques.

 

You learn how to use LightSwitch to build modern, scalable, customized line-of-business applications that automatically leverage technologies such as Silverlight, WCF, and SQL Server Express with no effort or expertise on your part. Through hands-on examples, Del Sole guides you through building solutions that can integrate and analyze business information from virtually any source, crafting custom logic that solves your company’s unique problems, and delivering state-of-the-art usability through professional-quality user interfaces.

 

• Implement features such as screen navigation, data interaction, paging, and Excel export, with absolutely no coding
• Build simple data-centric applications and add power to them with relationships and details
• Rapidly create customized queries, filters, sorts, and reports
• Aggregate data from many locations, including SharePoint, SQL Server, and the cloud
• Simplify the implementation of application-level data validation
• Protect your applications with authentication and authorization
• Fine tune your code for scalability and performance
• Streamline deployment to local computers, web servers, and the Windows Azure cloud
• Use .NET code to define custom behaviors related to data and the user interface
• Understand how LightSwitch applications are architected and how they are handled by Visual Studio
• Use LightSwitch with other Visual Studio tools to manage the entire application life cycle
• Efficiently debug LightSwitch code–and create code that’s easier to debug

 

Category: Microsoft Programming

Covers: LightSwitch

User Level: Intermediate—Advanced

 

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Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Alessandro Del Sole has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Basic since 2008. He is well known throughout the global Visual Basic community worldwide. He is a community leader on the Italian Visual Basic Tips & Tricks website (more than 44,100 developers) and on the LightSwitch Tips & Tricks website. He is a frequent contributor to the Visual Basic Developer Center on MSDN and the author of many articles about .NET development. The author of five technical books, Alessandro was awarded MVP of the Year for Visual Basic in 2009 and 2010.

Product Details

• Paperback: 832 pages
• Publisher: Sams Publishing; 1 edition (March 5, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672335530
• ISBN-13: 978-0672335532
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi guys, I'm Alessandro Del Sole from Italy. I'm a Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic since 2008, I'm the community leader for the Italian "Visual Basic Tips & Tricks" user group which is the family for more than 44500 VB developers. Also, I co-founded the Italian "WPF Tips & Tricks" and "LightSwitch Tips & Tricks" UGs. Programming is absolutely my main passion and is fun. I love VB and, more generally, the .NET Framework. WPF is the technology I'm most involved in and LightSwitch is the environment that I also use a lot. I enjoy writing technical articles, recording webcasts and instructional videos and writing some free dev tools. I'm a frequent contributor on the Visual Basic Developer Center on MSDN and recently we published an article series on programming Windows 7 with WPF 4 and VB 2010. I also regularly speak at technical events in Italy on Microsoft technologies.

I have been voted Visual Basic MVP Of The Year for 2009, 2010, 2011.

I love the sea and playing my electric guitar. If you like Queen's music, then we are friends :-)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars VS 2010 LightSwitch book ..screenprint images impossible to see July 6, 2012

By Master JR

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

A previous review tempted me to buy this book, but I found it at the local library first. After trying to read the hard copy version, the screen print images are impossible to see...faint, way too small (even with a magnifying glass). The Kindle eReader version is much better and clearer, especially for seeing the detail. I really like this book but find the digital version much better. Recommend that the publisher REDO the faint images for the screenshots.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book and Screenshot are ok April 13, 2012

By Charles

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

From reading the review of this book that noted the poor screenshots, I almost didn't buy it.

Now that I have, I would like to say that the book and the examples are both excellent. I'm a 60 year old programmer with poor eyesight and I had no problem viewing the examples printed in the book.

This author always does an excellent job of presenting the material and no one should hold back from buying the book because of someones bogus review.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book that I reccomend to everyone May 4, 2012

By Michael

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Whenever someone asks me what book they should get to learn LightSwitch I recommend this one. This is a hefty book who's greatest asset is that it is complete. It covers all the the big subjects that you would expect, but, also the small ones such as specifying a certificate (and what it means) when publishing your application. It saves you a lot of time to just grab the book and find what you are looking for in the index than it does to search the Internet. I recommend buying the physical book. This is one situation where the physical book makes it more convenient to get the information you need.

The book can also be read cover to cover, but there are 763 pages of primary content so I treat it as a reference book. I also found the screen shots to be clear and easy to read.

The only thing that I did not prefer is that the code is in VB and I code in C#. However, there is so little code (4-5 lines every 10 pages or so), that it really is not an issue.