Beginning Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Development [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781694203321
• Autore: Nov?k Istv?n
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Wiley, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-17774-9; 9786613177742; 1-118-14851-7
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (468 p.)
• Collana: Wrox programmer to programmer Beginning Visual studio LightSwitch development
• Disciplina: 005.1; 005.13/3
• Soggetti: Application software - Development - Computer programs; C# (Computer program language); Microsoft Visual C#; Visual programming (Computer science) - Computer programs; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Engineering & Applied Sciences; Telecommunications; Computer Science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Beginning: Visual Studio® LightSwitch Development; Contents; Introduction; Part I: An Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch; Chapter 1: Prototyping and Rapid Application Development; Line-of-Business Software Development Challenges; LOB Software Development; Changing Project Environment; Creating a Requirements Specification; Feedback Frequency; Application Prototyping; Wireframe Models; Proof-of-Concept Models; Low-Fidelity Prototypes; High-Fidelity Prototypes; Rapid Application Development; RAD Tools; Visual Studio LightSwitch and RAD; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started With Visual Studio LightswitchGetting to Know Visual Studio; A Short History of Visual Studio; Roots; Other Visual Languages and Tools; Integrating Languages into Visual Studio; ; Moving to .NET; Visual Studio Editions; Visual Studio 2010; Getting to Know Visual Studio LightSwitch; Business Code versus Plumbing Code; LOB Applications and LightSwitch; Installing Visual Studio LightSwitch; Types of Installation; Running LightSwitch for the First Time; Creating Your First LightSwitch Application; Creating a Project; Creating a Table; Creating a Screen to List Album InformationMaking Runtime Customizations; Summary; Chapter 3: Technologies Behind a Lightswitch Application; The Three-Tier Application Architecture Pattern; The Presentation Tier; The Logic Tier; The Data Tier; LightSwitch and the Three-Tier Architecture Pattern; The .NET Framework; The .NET Runtime; .NET Languages; .NET Framework and LightSwitch; Sources for More Information about the .NET Framework; Silverlight 4; A New UI Concept; Layout; Data Binding; Styles and Templates; Sources for More Information about Silverlight 4; SQL Server 2008; SQL Server FeaturesSQL Server 2008 Express; Sources for More Information about SQL Server; SharePoint 2010; SharePoint 2010 Features; SharePoint 2010 Lists and LightSwitch; Microsoft Office; Microsoft Office Application Features; Exporting Information to Microsoft Excel; Windows Azure; Dynamic Resource Allocation; Application Development with Windows Azure; Windows Azure and LightSwitch; Sources for More Information about Windows Azure; Summary; Chapter 4: Customizing Lightswitch Applications; Customizing Data; Creating the Aquarium Database; Connecting to an Existing Database; Changing Names and Types in the Existing TableCreating the Cart Table; Customizing Screens; Creating a Creature Catalog; Changing the Grid Layout; Creating a Shopping Cart Screen; Writing Code; Setting a Default Property Value in Code; Setting the Startup Screen; Managing Price Information; Other Points Where Code Is Used; Summary; Part II: Creating Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch; Chapter 5: Preparing to Develop a Lightswitch Application; The ProjectTrek Sample; The Functionality of ProjectTrek; The ProjectTrek Application Database; LightSwitch Application Development Life cycle; The Iterative Model
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