My Book

If you want to learn more about LightSwitch 2011, you should consider buying my book
Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development.

This book has been co-authored with LightSwitch expert Yann Duran.

In this book, you’ll find out everything that you need to know to develop professional LightSwitch applications. To give you a brief taste of what you’ll find, here are the table of contents:

Part One – LightSwitch Concepts
01 Forms Over Data, and Beyond
02 Working With Visual Studio

Part Two – Working With Data
03 Designing Data
04 Accessing Data
05 Validating Data
06 Querying Data

Part Three – Interacting with Data
07 Creating and Using RIA Services
08 Creating and Using Screens
09 Creating and Using Custom Controls
10 Creating and Using Extensions

Part Four – Getting Data Out
11 Creating and Displaying Reports
12 Creating and Sending Emails

Part Five – Securing Your Application
13 Authenticating Your Users
14 Authorizing Your Users
15 Auditing What Your Users Do

Part Six – Deployment
16 Deploying Your Application
17 When Things Don’t Go Quite Right