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LightSwitch Data – Fleshing Out Your Application

lightswitch data logoLightSwitch Data – If you have followed the previous two articles I wrote (Visual Studio LightSwitch – True Power Lies In Simplicity and Extending LightSwitch – Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole), you will by now know that our little application is becoming more sophisticated and feature rich.

I have to hasten to add, our application is becoming more feature rich without us having to do much work. It seems almost like stealing candy from a baby, and I almost feel guilty for getting so much satisfaction from creating with LightSwitch.

If by now you aren’t hooked on LightSwitch, I don’t know what will get you hooked. The more I play with LightSwitch, the more I love it. It is easy to see why there is such a large community behind this technology.

As I have mentioned before, it is the data that drives LightSwitch. The underlying data layer needs to be correct, so a basic understanding of databases is preferable. But the technology is also very forgiving. Give it a few hours time, and you will be quite fluent with it. (more…)

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Extending LightSwitch – Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole

Extending LightSwitch Application With DataExtending LightSwitch – In my previous post Visual Studio LightSwitch – True Power Lies In Simplicity, I showed how easy and quick it was to create a fully functional, data aware Windows Form. If you haven’t read the previous post, go check it out.

In this post however, I want to take it one step further. They say that no man is an island. Well, I can tell you with confidence that no app is an island either.

Using our previous application as a foundation, let us assume that we wanted to group members together according to some sort of classification. How easy would that be? Let us create another table to group members by their level of study within the organisation. (more…)

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