Chapter 3. Building Data-Centric Applications

In This Chapter

• Creating a New Application

• Creating a New Data Source

• The User Interface: Implementing Screens

• Testing the Application on the Development Machine

• Input-Data Validation

• Default Validation of Business Types

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment focused on making it easier to build line-of-business applications (that is, data-centric software). Up to now, you have learned what LightSwitch is and a fair bit about its integrated development environment (IDE), but there is a lot more to learn. Starting from this chapter, you begin developing applications with LightSwitch, and in the process, you learn how easy it is to build complex ...

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