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…

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 was a massive increase in productivity for the world...

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 any form objects, like button, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. Besides, I could not find any component that I can drop on the screen. Anyway, it seems like a pain to me. Maybe I need a better book. I will still keep taking a shot at LightSwitch until I get it...

Trust me, this is crazy talk .

But, the odd thing is that I feel I totally understand where poster is coming from.



...

But First, The JavaScript I 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 at the top of their game. If they have this many issues to deal with, aren’t I crazy if I even think of writing any JavaScript without using JQuery?

The rule I follow is, keep the JavaScript to a minimum, and always use JQuery or some other big JavaScript library. The reason is web browser “incompatibilities” and it is very costly and is an issue that is not changing any time soon.

IT is fueled on the money it saves for businesses with the Line Of Business (LOB) applications that we programmers create. However, lately, IT and the programmers creating the LOB apps, cost too much money. The reason, the JavaScript.

JavaScript wasn’t so costly back when we used it to validate date fields and we only had to worry about IE...

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’...

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 LightSwitch is that development is so fast. With LightSwitch you can give contestants only 1 hour...

 

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 room was packed with over 40 people and she did a special deep dive into extending LightSwitch for advanced situations.

...

First item of business, you’re not wrong. If your code works, and you are happy with it, march on with my blessing!

This is not about telling anyone that they “are wrong”. It is written only to encourage you to consider using WCF RIA Services in your LightSwitch applications.

You know it seems like ComponentOne gets all the breaks. Due to the nature of their control, they were able to take an existing Silverlight control, and create a LightSwitch control, and create what I call the “Killer Application” for LightSwitch, ComponentOne's OLAP for LightSwitch (live demo) (you can get it for $295). Take a look at the walk-thru I did for the control : Using OLAP for LightSwitch.

 

...