Extending Visual Studio LightSwitch

1. Download the LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit

The LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit adds templates to Visual Studio Professional or higher to help you build and package LightSwitch extensions easily.

To start building LightSwitch Extensions, you’ll need:

• Visual Studio Professional 2010 (or higher) with SP1
• Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 SDK
• LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit

2. Get Started with LightSwitch Extensibility

Get started building your own LightSwitch extensions with these samples and learning resources.

• How to: Create a Business Type Extension
• How to: Create a Data Source
• How to: Create a LightSwitch Control
• How to: Create a LightSwitch Screen Template
• How to: Create a Theme
• How to: Create a Shell

More Extensibility Documentation >

3. Ask Questions in the Forums