I believe this is sort of MS Access for the Web. On Mar 8, 2013 6:37 AM, "Vincent Sotto" <dsreil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> lightswitch, i just found out about this, no more plugins anymore > (silverlight), the output is html5 > > anybody try this? it looks promising, one thing i hate is that i have to > use iis or azure > > here is a qoute from eweek > > LightSwitch is a rapid application development (RAD) tool created by > Microsoft. In its original version, released in 2010, any applications you > created with it ran under the Silverlight runtime. But with the advent of > HTML5, Microsoft decided to step LightSwitch up a notch and give it the > ability to create HTML5 applications without needing > Silverlight< > http://www.eweek.com/developer/lightswitch-in-visual-studio-2012-proves-effective-as-rad-tool/ > >. > That opens up a lot of doors for developers. LightSwitch is incredibly easy > to use, and the resulting applications have a definite Windows 8 look to > them. The resulting apps also perform nicely on mobile browsers. The apps > you develop can connect to several different types of databases, and from > there, you can quickly create screens that are easily navigable. Your users > can then browse the data and add new data using simple forms. Under the > hood, you can even drop down to the code level and write C# code to enhance > the app even more. What follows are screenshots of the development tool > itself as well as screens of a running app. >