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What is LightSwitch?


What is LightSwitch?

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch helps you solve specific business needs by enabling you to quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills. See how Visual Studio LightSwitch can help you develop business applications that run on the desktop or the cloud quickly.

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Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitchIntroducing Visual Studio LightSwitch

See how you can build, customize, and extend LightSwitch applications, including changing themes, templates, adding custom validation, providing smart data types, and deploying to Windows Azure.

Friendly User InterfacesFriendly User Interfaces

Quickly create professional quality screens using Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch customized to your data needs.

Connect to Multiple Data SourcesConnect to Multiple Data Sources

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch simplifies the task of using data from different sources to create business applications to solve your business needs.

Integrate with OfficeIntegrate with Office

Leverage the power of Microsoft Office quickly and easily in your business applications using Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch.

Flexibility for the FutureFlexibility for the Future

Business needs evolve and Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is extensible to move with your needs. Third-party extensions make it simple to add new data sources and screens.

A Glimpse of the Future - Jason ZanderA Glimpse of the Future - Jason Zander

In his keynote presentation at VSLive! 2010 Redmond, Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President, Visual Studio, announces a new addition to the Visual Studio product line, Visual Studio LightSwitch.

LightSwitch Podcasts

Download these podcasts to follow the latest discussions on LightSwitch.