Getting Started with LightSwitch
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a development tool that helps you build business applications quickly. LightSwitch provides a simplified development environment that enables you to concentrate on the business logic instead of the application infrastructure.
For a quick introduction to the LightSwitch development environment and its most common features, see Walkthrough: Creating the Vision Clinic Application. The walkthrough shows how to use the features to create an application for a fictional vision clinic.
For a more detailed introduction, see LightSwitch Guided Tour, which contains a series of lessons that cover many capabilities of LightSwitch. The lessons include contextual information that helps you understand what you are doing and why.
For a quick introduction to the LightSwitch development environment and the most commonly used features, see Walkthrough: Creating the Vision Clinic Application. The walkthrough shows how to use the features to create an application for a fictional vision clinic.
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Describes the tools in the development environment. |
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Describes how to use the Code Editor to write code. |
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Contains links to a set of sequential lessons that cover most of the capabilities of LightSwitch. |
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Shows how to create an application for a fictional vision clinic. |
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Contains information about and links to community resources such as forums, blogs, and LightSwitch-related websites. |
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Contains information about frequently encountered issues and the steps that are required to resolve them. |