Ordina's Stand out from the Crowd event of May 26th - the presentation, see them all on Slideshare Ordina Belgium

1. Switch on the LightSwitch Gill Cleeren gill.cleeren@ordina.be

2. Glad to meet you! Gill Cleeren Microsoft Regional Director MVP Silverlight .NET Architect @Ordina (www.ordina.be) Speaker (TechDays, DevDays, NDC Norway, Spring Conference UK, SQL Server SaturdaySwitzerland...) Visug user grouplead(www.visug.be) Author(Silverlight 4 Data and services cookbook) www.snowball.be - gill@snowball.be - @gillcleeren

3. Agenda Introduction: what and why LightSwitch? The basics Data Screens Queries Small demo Extending LightSwitch

4. What and Why LightSwitch? Introduction

5. Not everyone is a developer... This guy at least looks like one...

6. Developers like working fast as well This is not a Mac...

7. What is LightSwitch? An easy way to build business apps for desktop and cloud applications

8. The LightSwitch Development Experience At this point, we already have working app (SL, MVVM, RIA Services)

9. The basics of LightSwitch

10. Basic #1: Data Data is the base of our application LS allows Connecting to existing data sources Newly created tables Creating relations between tables Even in one or more databases Based on data, LS will do Field validation Transactions processing Concurrency checking

11. Basic #1: Data LS can connect to Existing SQL Server data base SharePoint list WCF RIA Service LS has an internal database as well, used for Internal setting storage Custom entities LS allows changing internal fields, external can’t be changed

12. Basic #1: Data LS can create relations between data items If items are in internal database Doesn’t work between 2 external items Works between 2 different types (internal and SQL Server for example)

13. Basic #2: Screens Screensallowus to display data A LS app is made up of screens (whichmayseemlogical) Creating a screen is done by: Selecting the type of screen you want Selecting the data you want Have LS generateit for you These screenscan be tweaked: Howthey look What features they offer What commandstheyallow ...

14. Basic #2: Screens Types of screens that exist in LS: New Data Screen Search Data Screen Details Screen Editable Grid Screen List and Details Screen Your own!

15. Basic #2: Screens Appearance of screens can be altered: Using the Screen Designer (Visual Studio) Customization Mode Screen (Run time, sends back the changes to Visual Studio)

16. Basic #3: Queries A query in LS returns data that matches some criteria Return all products in selected category LS has internal query designer A query becomes part of the model Can be used to create (part of) screens from

17. The BookStore application

18. Extending LightSwitch

19. Where to extend? LightSwitch has 6 extensibility points

20. Extending LightSwitch Possible to combine multiple extensions: An extension provides a Money Market solution by using a Shell that has specific trading navigation A theme that is specific to the trading company Anumber of screen templates and controls that provide visualizations for trading data A custom data source could be the extension that aggregates the data to the application

21. Extension hooks

22. Controls

23. Business types A Business type provides a way to visualize, format, validate and store information/data Basically, this is just a visual formatting on data

24. Screen templates

25. Shell

26. Theme

27. Custom data source

28. Using extensions in LightSwitch

29. Summary LightSwitch is a nice tool to build LOB app with Easy For developers and “non-developers” Fast Choice of deployment options Extensible

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