Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015

ISBN-13: 9781484207673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 853 str.

Tim Leung

Opis

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning author Tim Leung explains how to build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, web, and mobile devices in just a few clicks--with no code required--using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015. This book explains the basics of Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015 plus new features and key advanced topics that every Microsoft developer needs to know to create modern data services and build clients that can run on multiple devices.Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 is a rapid application deployment tool that simplifies and shortens the time needed to develop business applications. The basics are very easily understood but more advanced users will hunger for more. How do you design complex layouts? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application against malicious use? Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 answers these questions and more as author Tim Leung--winner of a Microsoft 2011 Community Contributor Award for his LightSwitch expertise--covers this breakthrough product in detail. For serious developers building, enhancing, and deploying advanced business applications using LightSwitch makes sense because they can benefit from the elegance, convenience, and cost savings afforded by rapid application development before going beyond the "click-and-you're-done" interface to include the extra value and depth of coding expertise that their clients value.
What You Will Learn:

• Build Desktop and HTML5 business applications for PC or mobile devices
  
• Create compelling user interfaces that can support multiple languages
  
• Fine tune your application with C#, VB.NET, JQuery, JavaScript, and CSS code
  
• Integrate with mapping, GPS, and location services
  
• Provide email notification, and Microsoft Office compatible data exports
  
• Enable users to carry out advanced searches on data
  
• Build screen controls that you can share with other developers
  

Spis treści

Part One –Introducing LightSwitch

01. Understanding How LightSwitch Works

02. Setting Up Your data

03. Creating HTML Applications

04. Creating Desktop Applications

Part Two - Working with Data

05. Querying your data

06. Writing Data Access Code

07. Validating data

Part Three – Writing ScreenCode

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08. Refining HTML Client Screens with JavaScript/CSS

09. Enhancing Desktop Screens with .NET code

Part Four – Refining your Application

10. Providing Search Capabilities

11. Building Practical Application Features

12. Supporting multiple languages

13. Enriching Desktop Screens with Custom Controls

Part Five - Extending the Reach of Your Data

14. Optimizing Data Connectivity with RIA Services

15. Sharing Data with OData

Part Six - Getting Data Out

16. Displaying Reports on Screens

17. Exporting Data to Microsoft Office

18. Sending Email

Part Seven - Extending LightSwitch

19. Creating Screen Control Extensions

20. Creating Data and Presentation Extensions

Part Eight - Securing your Application

21. Authenticating your users

22. Authorizing your users

Part Nine-Going Live with your Application

23. Deploying your application

O autorze

Tim Leung is a professional software developer based in England. For the past 12 years, he has specialized in enterprise application development using products from the Microsoft technology stack. In particular, he possesses deep knowledge of the Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server. He is an active member of the U.K. developer community and often delivers presentations on technical topics. He is also a chartered member of the British Computer Society. He is passionate about the concept of rapid application development and was awarded the Microsoft Community Contributor Award in 2011 for contributions to the LightSwitch community.

Blurb

In this fully updated second edition, award-winning author Tim Leung explains how to build data-centric business applications for the desktop, cloud, web, and mobile devices in just a few clicks—with no code required—using Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015. This book explains the basics of Visual Studio Lightswitch 2015 plus new features and key advanced topics that every Microsoft developer needs to know to create modern data services and build clients that can run on multiple devices.

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 is a rapid application deployment tool that simplifies and shortens the time needed to develop business applications. The basics are very easily understood but more advanced users will hunger for more. How do you design complex layouts? How do you query data using LINQ and other syntax structures? How do you secure your application against malicious use? Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015 answers these questions and more as author Tim Leung—winner of a Microsoft 2011 Community Contributor Award for his LightSwitch expertise—covers this breakthrough product in detail. For serious developers building, enhancing, and deploying advanced business applications using LightSwitch makes sense because they can benefit from the elegance, convenience, and cost savings afforded by rapid application development before going beyond the "click-and-you're-done" interface to include the extra value and depth of coding expertise that their clients value.