What is New in LightSwitch of Visual Studio 2012
As we know, Visual Studio 2012 has been released on Aug 15,
2012 I just wanted to discuss about the new features of LightSwitch.
In Visual Studio 2012, LightSwitch is included as a
core part and we can create the LightSwitch application from Visual Studio 2012
IDE. LightSwitch will be available as a Project Template group Node in the
Visual Studio 2012.
New LightSwitch Architecture
Visual Studio 2012 LightSwitch has a lot of
enhancements including OData Services which leads to define the new
architecture for the LightSwitch Application Development.
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a
development environment designed to simplify and shorten the development of
typical forms-over-data applications for businesses. Regardless of your
development skills—whether you're a beginner or an experienced
developer—LightSwitch enables you to quickly create professional-quality
business applications and data services. – From MSDN
You can get more details about the LightSwitch
Architecture, please have a look at MSDN.
New Enhancements in LightSwitch 2012
There are ton of new features included in the Visual
Studio 2012 LightSwitch. We will briefly discuss about all the new features of
the new enhanced LightSwitch.
Connecting with OData Services:
LightSwitch 2012 now
supports Open Data Protocol Services.
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol
for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free
it from silos that exist in applications today. – From OData
We can represent the data from a published Visual
Studio LightSwitch web application as an OData Data source which can consumed
by other applications.
Formatting Numbers & Dates:
We can easily format the Numbers and Dates using Format
Pattern property in LightSwitch 2012. This Format Pattern Property is available
only for the particular data types.
New Data Types in LightSwitch:
Visual Studio LightSwitch team has introduced two more Data
Types namely Percent and Web Address. Here the Decimal will be treated as
Percent business type and the String will be treated as Web Address.
Static Label & Image Control:
LightSwitch 2012 includes two more controls which can be
used to display the content statically without binding data. These controls can
be used to display the static texts about the organization and logo.
Improved Application Security:
In LightSwitch Business Application we can apply security by
two ways like Forms Authentication and Windows Authentication, In Windows
Authentication it is possible to provide the Roles & Permissions to Active
Directory User Groups.
Download Visual Studio 2012
You can download the Visual Studio 2012 90 days
trail version from the Microsoft site.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads
Summary
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features of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012.
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