CHAPTER 8

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Refinining HTML Clients Screens with JavaScript/CSS

With LightSwitch, you can build perfectly functioning applications without modifying the stock screens that the default screen templates generate. However, you can drastically improve the usability of your application by writing code and making presentational changes. In this chapter, I’ll show you how to do the following:

  • clean up the appearance of your applications with themes, HTML, and CSS
  • enhance editing capabilities by building custom HTML controls
  • add extra functionality to your applications by writing JavaScript code

This chapter focuses on writing custom HTML, JavaScript, ...

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