Authors:
- Build business applications quickly by using the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 development tool. LightSwitch is a rapid application deployment tool that provides a simplified development environment, enabling you to be more productive as a developer. Learn the basics of Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015 plus key advanced topics that every Microsoft developer needs to know to build robust, data-centric applications for the desktop, cloud, web and mobile devices.
- This is the first book on the market to cover Lightswitch 2015's features in detailed step by step fashion. Written by Tim Leung—winner of a Microsoft Community Contributor Award for his LightSwitch expertise
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Introducing LightSwitch
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Working with Data
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Writing ScreenCode
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Refining Your Application
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Extending the Reach of Your Data
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About this book
In this fully updated second edition, award-winning author Tim Leung explains how to build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, web, and mobile devices in just a few clicks—with no code required—using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015. This book explains the basics of Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015 plus new features and key advanced topics that every Microsoft developer needs to know to create modern data services and build clients that can run on multiple devices.
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 is a rapid application deployment tool that simplifies and shortens the time needed to develop business applications. 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 2015 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.
What You Will Learn:
- Build Desktop and HTML5 business applications for PC or mobile devices
- Create compelling user interfaces that can support multiple languages
- Fine tune your application with C#, VB.NET, JQuery, JavaScript, and CSS code
- Integrate with mapping, GPS, and location services
- Provide email notification, and Microsoft Office compatible data exports
- Enable users to carry out advanced searches on data
- Build screen controls that you can share with other developers
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015
Authors: Tim Leung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0766-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Tim Leung 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-0767-3Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-0766-6Published: 24 December 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 853
Number of Illustrations: 872 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Programming Techniques