Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Expanding Universe of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch -VSLS for short has come of age with the RTM release yesterday. I tried to install it on my Windows 7 Ultimate (x32) but failed. That will be the subject of another post.

This post is about how this product will evolve in the future and surely it has all the ingredients. Microsoft showcased some of the extensions built by third party and this post is about those extensions.

ComponentOne
OLAP for VSLS from
http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/47efd8fb-6573-4577-9847-f26c84656547

Infragistics
Radial Gauge Control
http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/14e7bba1-a7cd-4e4f-a3f8-187d6a0e6fb1

NetAdvantage for VSLS
http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/328c3b86-0a9b-419f-a729-cac16a288889

This video is cool and shows how much Infragistics has invested on this product and I am sure it is going to pay off. Replacing the vanilla Data Grid in VSLS by Infragistics' DataChart make the whole page come to life.

Of course Infragistics has leveraged their Silverlight controls to customize them for VSLS and there are lots of them. No code is necessary. Isn't that great, putting developers out of work (no kidding!).


First Floor Software

Document Toolkit which enables Viewing Documents and Reports in LightSwitch
http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/2fab2964-7fd0-4061-ac8e-2d81829a2a97


DevExpress
Enjoy reporting with XtraReports Suite
http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/a9c015f9-0ddd-493c-bef5-7c5cbabee2aduy

This is just the beginning guys!!


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