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LightSwitch Blogs

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New Office Integration Pack Extension Released to CodePlex
Tuesday, May 22 LightSwitch Team

.NET Rocks! Podcast: Beth Massi Builds Apps with LightSwitch in Studio 11
Tuesday, May 22 Beth Massi

What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11? (Beth Massi)
Monday, May 21 LightSwitch Team

Visual Studio 11 Product Line-up Announced
Friday, May 18 LightSwitch Team

"What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11" Recording Available
Monday, May 14 Beth Massi

Popular LightSwitch Extensions

Visual Studio LightSwitch Developer Center | MSDN

Team Foundation Server Integration Tools (March 2012 Release)
Monday, Mar 19 Microsoft

LightSwitch Metro Theme
Thursday, Aug 18 Microsoft

.Net Dashboard & Widget Toolkit for Asp.Net
Wednesday, Oct 26 kalitte (Kalitte Information Technologies Ltd. Co.)

Pixata custom controls for Lightswitch
Tuesday, Oct 4 Mr Yossu (Alan Silver, Pixata Ltd)

Office Integration Pack
Tuesday, Sep 13 Steve Hansen (Grid Logic)

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Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed

Alessandro Del Sole

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