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HTML5 is in town! Long live LightSwitch!
O yea, nothing like a good portion of drama about Silverlight, and the LightSwitch team comes out admitting: We’ve been secretly working on building HTML5 clients with LightSwitch. O yes, feels like...
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Understanding the decorator pattern.
Update (November 14th 2012): download a code sample that contains this hack. The problem: You cannot bind to non-public types in LightSwitch. So you’ve read the article about creating reusable modal...
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CrudQRS, a pragmatic approach to CRUD and CQRS using LightSwitch
After last month’s tales of advanced client-side customization, I originally intended to share a server-side tale about “Nancy”‘s LightSwitch application. However, since HTML5 has entered the...
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Rumor has it… LightSwitch HMTL Client preview 2 is released – omg omg omg...
Testing… 1… 2… Is this thing on? Man it’s been a while since I blogged, hopefully I still have that fingerspitzegefühl… Hey LightSwitch lovers out there! It has indeed been a while since I blogged or...
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Executing an arbitrary method or long-running process on the LightSwitch...
In the business world that we try to model into bits and bytes, not everything is considered CRUD. Although LightSwitch excels at creating CRUD-based applications or data services, the need to call an...
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Executing an arbitrary method or long-running process on the LightSwitch...
In the business world that we try to model into bits and bytes, not everything is considered CRUD. Although LightSwitch excels at creating CRUD-based applications or data services, the need to call an...
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LightSwitch News – Find out what the LightSwitch community is up to.
Almost forgot, one last blog-worthy event… Quite some time ago, I set up a twitter bot that monitors different sources (official blogs, LightSwitch code samples, but also community blogs, etc) and...
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CodeSchool: taking my first baby steps in JQuery
Oh wait, have another blogworthy item before I call it a day… I’m quite sure you’re just as excited as me about the new LightSwitch HTML client preview, but perhaps (again: just like myself) you’re a...
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Simple yes or no question: is Silverlight dead?
Looking at the search terms that people enter and happen to result in the outcome of them visiting my blog, I noticed quite some visitors come here hoping to get a simple yes or no answer to their...
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Switch… Off…
Being the number-geek that I am, I must admit I do check the stats of my own blog once in a while. In less than one week, my blog will welcome its 100,000th visitor! Wow! What a nice early Christmas...
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Switch… On…
Happy new year everyone!!! Admitted, I’m a bit late with my best wishes this year, but I spent some time recently looking for some crazy adventures in Asia. Now that I finally found some stable ground...
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LightSwitch: technology overview.
February ’13 will be a fun month full of LSL (“LightSwitch Lovin’ – highly addictive”), including a very short high-speed demo at MS Web Cafe, and an intensive evening workout co-hosted by community...
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Free your disk: cleaning up the bin/debug folder.
An empty LightSwitch project without any tables or screens, takes up about 195 Mb. Like most Visual Studio projects, a lot of this space is taken up by the bin/debug folder, containing mostly compiled...
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I’m going to do something, just because it’s really cool.
Again my blog is quiet… Not because I’ve abandoned LightSwitch, on the contrary. I’m still eating and breathing LightSwitch every spare second, and even have plans to quit my day job to focus more on...
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Hide the Save/Cancel/Ok/Discard buttons in a LightSwitch HTML screen.
Today I’m going to hide the Save/Cancel/OK/Discard buttons in a LightSwitch HTML screen. Why? Because it’s really cool. On any screen, select the “Write code” button and find the “activated” event...
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Create a JQuery slider for LightSwitch HTML pages.
A JQuery slider (also commonly referred to as a carousel) has very little use in the LOB world, but sometimes you want one anyways, just because it’s cool. To get started, open up any “hello-HTML app”...
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What field do you use to store an Image?
When I started playing with the LightSwitch HTML bits, my first experiment was to try to recreate a professional mobile site. After only a couple of minutes (minus the many hours spent creating a...
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LightSwitch news RSS: bringing you news from around the world!...
So…. What’s up doc? Not much. Reading some blog posts by other LightSwitch community members… Sweet! Google Reader? Errr… Haven’t you heared? Google is dead. (Google reader*) The easiest way to keep...
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Create a JQuery searchbox for LightSwitch HTML pages
I have a LightSwitch project with a query that takes a single (optional) string parameter, then performs a case-insensitive search on the server (there’s only a couple of dozen records, so don’t worry...
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#LightSwitch and #Syncfusion: simply beautiful applications ($10.000 April...
With all the blog posts about the new LightSwitch HTML client, it’s easy to lose track of the continued investments in the Silverlight client and the server tier… One minute summary Today, this blog...
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