LightSwitch Video Tutorials – 13 Hours
Here is a collection of over 13 hours of premium video tutorials on Lightswitch by Pluralsight. In order to view the videos, you need to become a member of Pluralsight.
Background: Lightswitch is an extension and framework specifically tailored for creating line-of-business applications built on existing .NET technologies and Microsoft platforms. The applications produced are architecturally 3-tier: the user interface runs on either Microsoft Silverlight or HTML 5 client, or as a SharePoint 2013 app; the logic and data-access tier is built on WCF Data Services and exposed as an OData feed hosted in ASP.NET; and the primary data storage supports Microsoft SQL Server Express, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Azure. LightSwitch also supports other data sources including Microsoft SharePoint, OData and WCF RIA Services.
LightSwitch includes graphical designers for designing entities and entity relationships, entity queries, and UI screens. Business logic may be written in either Visual Basic or Visual C#. LightSwitch is included with Visual Studio 2012 Professional and higher.
The user interface layer is now an optional component when deploying a LightSwitch solution, allowing a service-only deployment.
The first version of Visual Studio LightSwitch, released 26 July 2011, had many differences from the current release of LightSwitch. Notably the tool was purchased and installed as a stand-alone product. If Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher was already installed on the machine, LightSwitch would integrate into that. The second major difference was the middle tier was built and exposed using WCF RIA Services.
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| Series | Title | Date | Presenter | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building Line of Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 | Building Line of Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 | 9/24/2015 | Yacine Khammal | 298 |
| Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 and 2013 | Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 and 2013 | 2/21/2014 | Matt Milner | 307 |
| Rapid Application Prototyping with SharePoint and LightSwitch | Rapid Application Prototyping with SharePoint and LightSwitch | 10/10/2013 | Edin Kapic | 103 |
| Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 | Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 | 7/3/2011 | Matt Milner | 94 |
| Total | 802 |
