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Beth Massi presents on LightSwitch
Beth Massi spoke at the Los Angeles Silverlight User's Group about LightSwitch at Blank Spaces in Santa Monica, CA on 8/24/2011. The event was co-sponsored with the LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com. The...
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Let's Do A LightSwitch Hack-A-Thon
Most Hack-A-Thons are a grind because to give the contestants time to come up with something decent you need to give them at least a day.Not so with LightSwitch. One of the selling points of...
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Here is where I am at on the Silverlight is dead thing...
We finally know what is going on with Windows 8 and that while there is XAML + C#, there is no Silverlight as we know it except in ‘Legacy mode’.At this point I believe that Microsoft has been...
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LightSwitch: "There is a commitment to explore creation of apps other than...
In this thread in the LightSwitch Forums:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/thread/af1690b4-09d7-4c1e-98b9-d2a1b1e89e9a
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LightSwitch: It Is About The Money (It Is Always About The Money)
But First, The JavaScriptI just looked at the latest JQuery release notes and noted the issues that they had to fix due to web browser compatibility issues. We simply must believe that these people are...
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Trying To Put A Horseshoe On A Car
I got a comment on a Blog I wrote on the LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com:I found it much easier to write application in Visual Studio 2008 than Visual Studio LightSwitch. In LightSwitch, It is has to find...
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Oh, And It's Also All About Productivity
If you stop and think about it, an automobile is an amazing thing. The automobile brings together several key elements such as cost, fuel, rubber tires. The result is a massive increase in productivity...
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Creating a Hello World on Your Amazon Kindle Fire
When I received my Amazon Kindle Fire for Christmas I immediately wanted to make programs for it. I am a Microsoft stack programmer and creating Android programs in Java using Eclipse is new to me.The...
View ArticleInterviewing Beth Massi about LightSwitch 2011 and the Community Program
At the Microsoft MVP Summit 2012 I had the pleasure to interview Beth Massi.
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Consuming The Netflix OData Service Using App Inventor
App inventor is a program that allows you to easily make applications that run on the Android system. This includes the Amazon Kindle Fire. Here are some links to get you started with App...
View ArticleLightSwitch And OData: Like Putting Out A Fire With A Telephone
Visual Studio LightSwitch is a relatively young technology. Its supporters, have various reasons for supporting it. For some it has allowed them to realize their dream application, for others it has...
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Richard's Way: Four Easy Steps To Create Complex SQL That Runs Fast
Recently I was faced with taking over the maintenance of a complex series of functions and stored procedures that produced student transcripts. What I found amazing was that the code had a massive...
View ArticleWinRT Sharing Made Easy - SoC style
I put together a little base class to make it an easy and repeatable process to add sharing to any WinRT application. The ability to share content using the share charm is not that difficult to begin...
View ArticleType Based Template Selector for WinRT
I missed the implicit DataTemplates of Silverlight so much in WinRT, that I had to create a reusable template selector to help provide a similar behavior.First let’s look at the DataTemplateSelector I...
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Converting To Live Blog (Mandeeps.com)
This is what I did to upgrade to Live Blog from the default DotNetNuke Blog.I downloaded the module from http://Mandeeps.comWhen you extract the .zip file there are versions for each version of...
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Calling OData From A Normal ASP.NET Page
OData is basically like web services but better because you do not have to keep updating your service end points. For example, if you expose a Customer entity (table) as a web service, you have to...
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My 8 Year Old Cousin Creates A Computer Game
My 8 year old cousin just completed his first Android game today. It is called Pet Brawl. He actually wrote it himself. I have been tutoring him for 1 1/2 hours each month for over a year, but he wrote...
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Forms Authentication with SignalR Using Web Forms and Windows Forms
A Method To Provide Some Security With SignalRSignalR is a fantastic tool for creating real-time applications. It is not just limited to making chat applications, but we will use a chat application to...
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Understanding The LightSwitch HTML Client
The Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch team was a bit disappointed when I finally walked through the door. I was late to the invite only meeting where they revealed the beta of the new Visual Studio...
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Growth on The LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com
The best way to measure growth on the LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com is by looking at the number of members who join each month. Currently there are over 6000 members.As you can see from the chart, growth...
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