SharePoint Apps with LightSwitch

Summary

In this chapter, I introduced you to Visual Studio LightSwitch and many of the concepts you will see demonstrated in the rest of the book. It’s important to understand the architecture behind LightSwitch applications if you want to go beyond the basics of building without code. Knowing where to add your customization is more than half the battle.

Since the focus of the book is on building SharePoint applications, it’s also important to understand the basic mechanism of communication to and from a SharePoint site. All interaction from the perspective of permissions is controlled by SharePoint, so you’ll either need to know how to make administrative changes to individual users yourself or know the person able to make them for you.

You’ll want to set up a separate test server or machine to try out the code in this book. I’ll walk you through getting that set up in Chapter 2.