Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 released!

26. July 2011 in .NET, Delphi, DelphiExperts, Developer Experts, Prism by holger | View Comments

Just a quick note… Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 has been released officially! I have been using Beta 2 on a regular basis and it was already as stable and reliable as a full product. I am expecting the RTM version to be even better and to offer even more great features.

LightSwitch is a great tool to build business applications as it allows you to build a conceptual data model and a user interface. All the in-between plumbing is being taken care of by LightSwitch. A prototype is built pretty quickly and the framework allows for a great deal of customization if one wants to. You can write code at all sort of places so that you do not even recognize that it is a LightSwitch app.

And the best thing… you develop one app and you can deploy it to the web, to the desktop and into the cloud!

Go here for more information: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch

  • Kjell Rilbe

    Is this something that would replace ECO, work with ECO or something else? :-)

  • Holger Flick

    I would not say it will replace ECO. It has a lot of similarities with regard to the fact how you build an application. Its strong point compared to ECO is the deployment. MS provides wizards to deploy apps into the cloud, the desktop and as a web app. It all depends on Silverlight though, which is not the case for ECO. ECO is much more customizable with regard to that. However, if you need to build a data-centric app quickly, LS really is a tool to consider.

  • Kjell Rilbe

    Would it be possible to use LightSwitch on top of an ECO based “database”?

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