Is LightSwitch Useless?

Is LightSwitch Useless? I have used it to create a GUI to my SQL AZURE database, but there is no generated C# code go look at. Without this, I cannot easily customize what I want to do.

asked Sep 21 '12 at 10:22 PM in Default

xarzu
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did you right click on one of the screens and select "view code"?

Sep 24 '12 at 02:15 PM KenJ

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2 answers:

I don't speak LigthSwitch. From what I've seen, I'm sure the answer to your question is "No". But as I don't speak LigthSwitch, I couldn't fill you in on any details. So instead, I'll post you a blog link, where I think you'll be able to find the answer to your question and a lot of other LigthSwitch information.

Jan Van Der Haegen has a LigthSwitch blog and he seems to know what he's writing about: http://janvanderhaegen.wordpress.com/

Finally, I must question your statement that it's seeing generated C#-code that makes it possible to customize. From the little I know about LigthSwitch - it's NOT seeing C#-code that makes it easy to build and customize apps...

answered Sep 23 '12 at 06:12 PM

Magnus Ahlkvist
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LightSwitch is extremely powerful and extensible. You should check this link with the how-to videos at the bottom to get a feel of it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg604823.aspx

And LightSwitch VS Solution Explorer offers 2 types of views: Logical and File. You should choose File View if you want to see the typical source files, folders etc.

answered Sep 28 '12 at 06:33 AM