Ok I’m calling it, I have felt this way for a while now, but now that I have had a chance to put together a strong case. Take a look at this walk-thru of an end to end application created in about 20 minutes: LightSwitch Student Information System.

The key “take away” is that all the fields are properly validated, there is full referential integrity, and… The UI is consistent. All the buttons and paging work properly. Dare I say it has LESS bugs than if it was coded manually, not to mention is was coded 900% faster?

So, I can finally say what I have been feeling…

LightSwitch is… “The One”

The “One What” you ask?

The application that will allow non-programmers to make business programs that don’t suck.

“Legend always foretold of a program…”, and we laughed at the failed attempts. But now it has finally arrived, and naturally the thought of the threat...

Live Example: http://silverlight.adefwebserver.com/simpleconfigurator/simpleconfiguratorweb/

The application allows your users to query a collection (over web services), using drop downs and sliders. The results appear in a animated display.

You may ask, why not just use Microsoft Pivot? The main reasons are:

This one uses View Model / MVVM so the user interface can be completely designed by a designer....

Now before you go run off and start hugging the graphic artist down the hall, please finish reading this post. We don’t want any HR issues, now do we?

I tend to agree with what Michael is saying in his post (Silverlight: Why I feel “Design Is The Most Important Thing”), and think that it deserves some serious consideration by any professional developer. Far too long have we (developers) under valued how much a good “design” plays a part in good software. However, the designer I am referring to in this article spans graphic artists, UI designers, developers, machinist, architects, civil engineers… and on and on. This “designer” is the one that lives in all of us (yes you can now hug yourself if you like, but still not exactly what I’m talking about either). What I am trying to illustrate in this article is that we all have the ability to evaluate a good...