HelloWorld_ LightSwitch

Visual Studio LightSwitch is the newest member of the Visual Studio family.It's the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud. LightSwitch is optimized around making data and screens very simple.

It has pre-configured screen templates that give applications a familiar look, and provides prewritten code to handle routine application tasks.

Let’s walk through a simple example which demonstrates how easy it is to get going.

First you have the choice between C# and VB.net LightSwitch project.

We are going to create a project to have Friends list.So we do need some data, and LightSwitch make it very easy by giving you two choices right away:

We just select " Create new table" and we edit the table :

Creating the main data table was easy. The next obvious step is to create a couple of screens which will allow me to edit my data.Just select the +screen button on the table.Then we select the "Search data screen " :

In order to add data to the table, juste create a " New data screen".

Finally, press F5 to see your application running: