Building Line of Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Learn how to master the powerful LightSwitch RAD environment to build complex and highly customized desktop, web, and mobile-based line-of-business applications.

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Course Description

This course delves into the sophisticated Visual Studio LightSwitch development environment, which has been described as the fastest way to build line-of-business applications using technologies such as ASP.NET, WCF services, C#, and JavaScript. This course seeks to go beyond the basics and tackle real-world scenarios professional developers are commonly faced with when building real-world desktop, web, and mobile-based business applications. We will learn how LightSwitch lets us develop multi-tiered, service-oriented solutions that follow modern best practices, with an incredibly high degree of productivity and without sacrificing the ability to meet complex business requirements, from multi-client user experiences to versatile back-end integration. Once you get hooked on LightSwitch, your LOB developer life will never be the same again.

Course Description

This course delves into the sophisticated Visual Studio LightSwitch development environment, which has been described as the fastest way to build line-of-business applications using technologies such as ASP.NET, WCF services, C#, and JavaScript. This course seeks to go beyond the basics and tackle real-world scenarios professional developers are commonly faced with when building real-world desktop, web, and mobile-based business applications. We will learn how LightSwitch lets us develop multi-tiered, service-oriented solutions that follow modern best practices, with an incredibly high degree of productivity and without sacrificing the ability to meet complex business requirements, from multi-client user experiences to versatile back-end integration. Once you get hooked on LightSwitch, your LOB developer life will never be the same again.

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Course Syllabus

The LightSwitch RAD Revolution
- 28m 8s

—Introduction 2m 13s
—Course Contents 1m 30s
—Module Contents 0m 46s
—What Is VS LightSwitch? 2m 29s
—How Real of an Application 2m 7s
—Obtaining VS LightSwitch 1m 21s
—Architecture 2m 17s
—Demo: Architecture 3m 32s
—Development Lifecycle 3m 56s
—Demo: Development Lifecycle 2m 48s
—Sample Application Tour 4m 22s
—Summary 0m 40s

Creating the Structure of a LightSwitch Application
- 48m 7s

—Introduction 1m 27s
—The Data Model 2m 38s
—Demo: The Data Model 4m 26s
—The Data Services 2m 16s
—Demo: Data Services 2m 25s
—Demo: Data Service Implementation 2m 36s
—LightSwitch API 2m 38s
—Demo: LightSwitch API 2m 23s
—Custom Queries 0m 59s
—Querying Data 3m 22s
—Demo: Building Queries 7m 46s
—The Query Pipeline 1m 44s
—Demo: Query Pipeline 3m 24s
—Updating Data 2m 52s
—Demo: Save Pipeline 5m 30s
—Summary 1m 34s

Building a Real-world Desktop Client - Part 1
- 46m 4s

—Introduction 1m 18s
—MVVM in LightSwitch 1m 16s
—MVVM in LightSwitch Continued 3m 5s
—Demo: Model 2m 8s
—Demo: View Model 3m 42s
—Demo: View 3m 57s
—Demo: View Continued 2m 38s
—Client-side Querying 1m 39s
—Demo: Cascading Lookup Lists 6m 55s
—Demo: Custom Search Server 4m 25s
—Demo: Custom Search Client 3m 22s
—Client API 1m 33s
—Demo: Reusing a Screen 4m 36s
—Demo: Client-side Validation 4m 31s
—Summary 0m 51s

Building a Real-world Desktop Client - Part 2
- 27m 18s

—Introduction 0m 23s
—Customizing the View 2m 33s
—Data Binding and Details API 1m 44s
—Demo: Simple Silverlight Control 4m 20s
—Demo: Using a Custom Control 5m 21s
—Demo: Accessing Screen Data 1m 39s
—Workflow and Navigation 2m 4s
—Demo: Screen Partition and Modal 5m 8s
—Demo: Screen Navigation 3m 27s
—Summary 0m 35s

Building Real-world HTML Clients - Part 1
- 39m 32s

—Introduction 1m 9s
—Client Architecture 3m 15s
—Demo: Breaking Down the Client 5m 38s
—Screens and Navigation 3m 4s
—Screens and Navigation Continued 1m 46s
—Demo: Sample App Workflow 1m 35s
—Demo: Creating the Workflow 6m 36s
—Demo: Nested Changesets 3m 26s
—HTML Client API 2m 59s
—Demo: Application API Example 5m 5s
—Demo: Application API Example Continued 3m 54s
—Summary 0m 58s

Building Real-world HTML Clients - Part 2
- 49m 43s

—Introduction 1m 20s
—Screen API 2m 37s
—Async JavaScript Review 3m 8s
—Demo: Screen API 2m 52s
—Entity and Query APIs 2m 29s
—Demo: Query API Example 3m 49s
—Demo: Async Error Handling 1m 56s
—Demo: Screen Initialization 4m 42s
—ContentItem API 2m 45s
—Demo: Customizing the View in Code 2m 18s
—Demo: Customizing the View in Code 2 2m 45s
—Demo: Using a JQuery Control 4m 1s
—Data Binding 2m 26s
—Demo: AddChangeListener 3m 13s
—Demo: ContentItem.dataBind 4m 12s
—Demo: Advanced Querying and Data Binding 3m 40s
—Summary 1m 24s

Extending a LightSwitch Application - Part 1
- 36m 51s

—Introduction 1m 30s
—LightSwitch RIA Services 2m 59s
—Demo: Creating a LS RIA Service 4m 40s
—Demo: Creating a LS RIA Service - Continued 4m 52s
—Demo: Updating Data through a RIA Service 6m 13s
—ServerApplicationContext 2m 19s
—Demo: Exposing a WebAPI 5m 52s
—Demo: Inserting Data 6m 4s
—Demo: WebAPI and LS Business Rules 1m 41s
—Summary 0m 37s

Extending a LightSwitch Application - Part 2
- 22m 15s

—Introduction 0m 14s
—Reporting and Printing 1m 49s
—Demo: Creating a Report 1 3m 43s
—Demo: Creating a Report 2 5m 15s
—Authorization in the LS HTML Client 2m 0s
—Demo: Exposing LS User Permissions 5m 10s
—Demo: Consuming LS User Permissions 3m 22s
—Summary 0m 40s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

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Building Line of Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch 2015

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Application Program Interface (API)

HTML (HyperText Markup Language)

Workflow

Visual Studio

Data binding

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Model View ViewModel (MVVM)

JavaScript

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)

Silverlight

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