Lightswitch has made a switch!
I’ve met LightSwitch in november 2011. Back then it was marketed as a ‘Citizen developer’ framework. With LightSwitchV1 you could easily migrate from Access and get a scalable 3-tier application based...
View ArticleComputed Fields in the HTML5 client
Introduction The motivation of LS has always been to make typical LOB patterns easy to implement without limiting the more advanced functionalities. With the introduction of the HTML Client however,...
View ArticleShrinking a LightSwitchV3 project for file transfer
Introduction A small LightSwitch solution can take quite some diskspace, ~150MB. Since the LSv1 beta version, there’s a batch file made by Oscar Agreda for shrinking some redundant folders that Visual...
View ArticleConcurrent Ria Service (and Web Api) requests in LightSwitch
Introduction Recently I’ve developed a LightSwitch SilverLight web app with some expensive queries in a RIA Service. In a certain screen, I had some filter criteria from a RIA Service. The first filter...
View Articleextension methods for non-autoexecutable filters in the LightSwitch...
Introduction My current project is a LightSwitch SilverLight client that works on some rather large datasets. For certain screens in this application it’s desirable to set the query as...
View ArticleHow to reset saved sort and column settings of the Silverlight datagrid
The LightSwitch Silverlight client has many nice features that you get for free. One of these features is that it automatically saves Sort and Column user customizations on the datagrids. When a user...
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