Beth Massi

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Calling Stored Procs in your LightSwitch Databases using Web API

Last post I showed you a new LightSwitch feature in Visual Studio 2013 Preview that let’s you use...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/31/2013

Adding Stored Procs to your LightSwitch Intrinsic Database

When you build a LightSwitch application the very first question you are asked is whether you want...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/25/2013

Quick Tip: Getting LightSwitch Extensions to Install into Visual Studio 2013 Preview

So you want to try out Visual Studio 2013 Preview and test out the awesome new LightSwitch features...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/18/2013

LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– June 2013

A while back I started posting a monthly rollup of interesting community happenings, content,...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 07/03/2013

LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Preview!

This week at the \BUILD conference the previews of Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1 were released...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/27/2013

How to Assign Users, Roles and Permissions to a LightSwitch HTML Mobile Client

I’ve gotten a few questions lately on how to assign user permissions to a LightSwitch HTML mobile...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/25/2013

LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– May 2013 (+more)

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/11/2013

TechEd Presentations Now Online: Building Modern, HTML5-Based Business Apps with LightSwitch

Just a quick post while I’m here at TechEd in New Orleans this week. My sessions are now online...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 06/06/2013

Top 10 Quick Tips for Building Great Mobile LightSwitch Apps

I’ve been building a lot of HTML clients using LightSwitch lately so I thought I’d share some quick...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/23/2013

Use Your MSDN Benefit to Convert Your Office 365 Developer Preview

The easiest way to get started developing SharePoint apps with LightSwitch is to sign up for a free...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/20/2013

Saving Data Across One-to-One Relationships

I’ve had a couple questions recently on how you could add data to tables that have a...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 05/09/2013

Adding a Signature Control to the LightSwitch HTML Client

LightSwitch is all about building business solutions quickly -- defining your data models &...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/24/2013

Using LightSwitch ServerApplicationContext and WebAPI to Get User Permissions

Last post I showed a simple way of checking a single user permission from an HTML client screen in...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/17/2013

LightSwitch Tip: A Simple Way to Check User Permissions from the HTML Client

UPDATE 4/17: If you’re not afraid to write some code, here’s a more robust way to get all the user...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/12/2013

LightSwitch All Day Training at DevTeach, Toronto in May

Just announced! I’ll be delivering an all-day training at DevTeach again – this time in...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/09/2013

LightSwitch HTML Client & SharePoint Resources–Get Started Building HTML5 Business Apps Today!

This morning we released the LightSwitch HTML client in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2! I can’t tell...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/04/2013

LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–March 2013

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 04/02/2013

Master-Detail Screens with the LightSwitch HTML Client

Since we released the latest version of the LightSwitch HTML Client a couple weeks ago, the team has...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/21/2013

Trip Report: TechDays Netherlands 2013

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at TechDays in The Hague, Netherlands. It was my fourth...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/14/2013

Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4

UPDATE 4/4/2013: We have released the HTML Client! Please see this post for updated information...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 03/04/2013

LightSwitch OData Tip: Easily Expose Many-to-Many Relationships using Queries

The other day I got an email from a good friend trying to expose a many-to-many relationship via his...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/14/2013

LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2013

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 02/06/2013

Theming a LightSwitch SharePoint App with ThemeRoller

One of the many great benefits of building HTML clients with LightSwitch is that you can easily...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/31/2013

Sending Email from a LightSwitch SharePoint App using Exchange Online

About a week ago I showed you how to get started building SharePoint 2013 apps with LightSwitch HTML...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/28/2013

Enabling .NET Framework 4.5 on LightSwitch Server Projects

With LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (a.k.a LightSwitch V2) your server projects target the .NET...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/23/2013

Get Started Building SharePoint Apps in Minutes with LightSwitch

I’ve dabbled in SharePoint 2010 development in the past by using Visual Studio. In fact, I...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/17/2013

I was doing some content analysis this morning for this blog and the LightSwitch team blog and I...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/16/2013

LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–December 2012

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 01/08/2013

New LightSwitch VS 2012 “How Do I?” Videos Released!

Check it out! We just released a couple new videos on the LightSwitch Developer Center’s...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/29/2012

Building an HTML Client for a LightSwitch Solution in 5 Minutes

If you haven’t heard, we released the HTML Client Preview 2 last week which adds the ability to...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/22/2012

Getting Started with the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2

UPDATE 4/4/2013: We have released the HTML Client! Please see this post for updated information...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 11/13/2012

Speaking in San Diego this November

In November I’ll be speaking down in sunny (hopefully) San Diego! On November 6th I’ll...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/29/2012

Easily Deploy Your LightSwitch Apps to Azure Websites in Minutes

As part of my demo preps for all the conferences I’ve spoken at recently I’ve been deploying my...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/18/2012

LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–September 2012

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/03/2012

Channel 9 Interview: What's New with SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2012

If you haven’t heard, the new Office & SharePoint 2013 Developer Preview has a brand new...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 10/02/2012

Channel 9 Interview: Building an Outlook Mail App using the "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools

If you haven’t heard, the new Office & SharePoint 2013 Developer Preview has a brand new...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/27/2012

Visual Studio LightSwitch Books

I recently had a couple emails asking for LightSwitch books so I thought I’d create a list of the...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/19/2012

LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– August 2012

Last year I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/05/2012

LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 - New “How Do I” Videos Released!

Check it out! We’ve got three brand new LightSwitch “How Do I” videos available on...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 09/04/2012

Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012

Awesome! This morning we released Visual Studio 2012 which has a ton of new LightSwitch enhancements...

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/15/2012

Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 6: Go beyond the box. Customizing LightSwitch Apps with Extensions

NOTE: This is the Visual Studio 2012 version of the popular Beginning LightSwitch article series....

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/15/2012

Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions

NOTE: This is the Visual Studio 2012 version of the popular Beginning LightSwitch article series....

Author: Beth Massi - Microsoft Date: 08/15/2012

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