Calling Web Services to Validate Data in Visual Studio LightSwitch
Very often in business applications we need to validate data through another service. I’m not talking about validating the format of data entered – this is very simple to do in LightSwitch — I’m...
View ArticleLightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012
Last Fall I started posting a rollup of interesting community happenings, content, samples and extensions popping up around Visual Studio LightSwitch. If you missed those rollups you can check them out...
View ArticleUpdate to EF5 and DbLocal Default in Config
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post showing how EF5 uses DbLocal as its default database along with a screenshot of the configuration info that EF5 puts into your config (web.config or app.config) of...
View ArticleUpdate to VS Git tooling
Yesterday, we posted a small update to the Git tooling for VS. Since we just released it the other day, we don’t have much new yet but we should continue (at least for a while) to update it after each...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service Update – Mar 4
Sprint 44 is done and has now been deployed to the service. You can read the release notes on the Team Foundation Service Portal to learn more about what’s in it. Maybe the biggest news is that the...
View ArticleCTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available
We are continuing our journey to deliver a final release of Update 2. You can read about the CTP3 we shipped a few weeks ago here. The most notable thing about this CTP is that it is “go-live”. One...
View ArticleGetting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4
Today CTP4 of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 released which now also includes the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview! Take a look at John’s announcement on the team blog for release details and what’s new....
View ArticleGit extension for VS 2012 Update 2 CTP4
A couple of days ago I announced the availability of VS/TFS 2012.2 CTP4. At that time I mentioned that there would be an update of our Visual Studio Git extensions to work with it. We released the...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Service Update–Mar 22
Today, we released the results of Sprint 45 on Team Foundation Service. You can check out the release notes to learn more about today’s release. There were 2 basic areas of new capabilities on the...
View ArticleVS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today
Today, we released our second update to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012. You can read a fairly detailed post with all the new capabilities on the ALM blog. There’s a ton of new value in...
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