Visual Studio Lightswitch 2012

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiii

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2. Introducing LightSwitch

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 1-10

3. Setting Up Your Data

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 11-36

4. Introducing Silverlight Screen Design

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 37-62

5. Accessing Data with Code

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 63-88

6. Validating Data

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 89-112

7. Querying Your Data

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 113-138

8. Mastering Silverlight Screen Design

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 139-188

9. Creating HTML Interfaces

   • Tim Leung

   Pages 189-246

10. Creating and Using RIA Services

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 247-264

11. Sharing Data with OData

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 265-280

12. Creating and Using Custom Controls

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 281-308

13. Creating Control Extensions

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 309-364

14. Creating Data and Presentation Extensions

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 365-434

15. Creating Reports

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 435-480

16. Sending E-mail

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 481-522

17. Authenticating Your Users

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 523-536

18. Authorizing Your Users

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 537-556

19. Deploying Your Application

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 557-596

20. Culture Names

    • Tim Leung

    Pages 597-601

LightSwitch 2012 is included as part of the Visual Studio 2012 package. It is a rapid application deployment tool that lets power users and administrators build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, and Web in just a few clicks, with no code required. The basics are very easily understood but more advanced users will hunger for more: how do you design complex layouts? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application against malicious use? Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 answers these questions and more as author Tim Leung—winner of a Microsoft 2011 Community Contributor Award for his LightSwitch expertise—covers this breakthrough product in detail. For serious developers building, enhancing and deploying advanced business applications using LightSwitch makes sense because they can benefit from the elegance, convenience and cost savings afforded by rapid application development before going beyond the "click-and-you're-done" interface to include the extra value and depth of coding expertise that their clients value.

Tim Leung is a professional software developer based in England. For the past 12 years, he has specialized in enterprise application development using products from the Microsoft technology stack. In particular, he possesses deep knowledge of the Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server. He is an active member of the U.K. developer community and often delivers presentations on technical topics. He is also a chartered member of the British Computer Society. He is passionate about the concept of rapid application development and was awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award in 2011 for contributions to the LightSwitch community.

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