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Originally published: October 14, 2016
Our vision for LightSwitch was to accelerate the development of line-of-business apps, but the landscape has changed significantly from the time when we first thought about LightSwitch, for example with the prevalence of mobile and cloud solutions. There are now more connected and relevant choices from Microsoft and our partners for business app development.
We no longer recommend LightSwitch for your new apps. But we remain committed to fulfilling our vision to significantly raise the productivity bar for building modern LOB applications, which is why Microsoft is aligning efforts behind PowerApps. Microsoft PowerApps is a solution to build custom business applications that enables increased productivity with business apps that are easily created, shared and managed. PowerApps offers a modern, intuitive experience for Line of Business (LOB) application development. Learn more about PowerApps.
Visual Studio 2015 was the last release of Visual Studio that includes the LightSwitch tooling. Support for Visual Studio 2015 ended 14 October 2025. We recommend users not begin new application development with LightSwitch.