Beginning LightSwitch Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering...
Welcome to Part 4 of the Beginning LightSwitch series! In part 1, 2 and 3 we learned about entities, relationships and screens in Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed them: Part 1: What’s in a...
View ArticleBeginning LightSwitch Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions
Welcome to Part 5 of the Beginning LightSwitch series! In parts 1 thru 4 we learned about entities, relationships, screens and queries in Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed them: Part 1: What’s...
View ArticleWindows Azure with PHP – Deleting a Table
1. To delete a table, use the method deleteTable. Open the file ‘tabletest.php’ and change the code into the following: <?php require_once ‘Microsoft/WindowsAzure/Storage/Table.php’; $storageClient...
View ArticleVS11 and EF5: Where’s that database that Code First created?
Visual Studio 11 brings a new development database — SQL Server Local Database. Bye bye SQL Server Express dependency. I typically let Code First run with it’s default database of choice – up to now...
View ArticleGetting started with the ASP.NET Web API
Some time ago I did a number of blog posts about the beta versions of the WCF Web API. As it turns out the WCF Web API team has moved into the ASP.NET team, a good thing as far as I am concerned, and...
View ArticleUpdating data with the ASP.NET Web API
In the previous blog post I demonstrated how to get started with the ASP.NET Web API and retrieve some products data from the Northwind database. Something that was really easy to do But quite often...
View ArticleXAML AppBar Button Styles for Windows 8
An old colleague of mine and now HTML extraordinaire, Adam Kinney, just recently posted on his spelunking of some styling in both WinJS and XAML runtimes with regard to icons/buttons to use in a Metro...
View ArticleBuilding a deployable custom control for XAML Metro style apps
At //build one of the surprising immediate things I heard about was folks wanting to build custom controls right away. I knew that would happen, but not so quick on something so new (WinRT). The XAML...
View ArticleUsing Different Edit Screens Based on Record Types (Table Inheritance)
I had a reader ask a question this week on how to use Visual Studio LightSwitch to open different Edit Detail screens based on the “type” of record. This is a very common thing to do especially for...
View ArticleCalling Web Services to Validate Data in Visual Studio LightSwitch
Very often in business applications we need to validate data through another service. I’m not talking about validating the format of data entered – this is very simple to do in LightSwitch — I’m...
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