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Visual Studio LightSwitch Learning Resource

Sagi Arsyad — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:48:10 GMT

Seiring dengan bekembangnya jumlah developer LightSwitch, menarik saya untuk membuat sebuah rangkuman learning resource untuk rekan-rekan yang juga tertarik untuk mepelajari lightswitch. Berikut rangkuman daftar learning resource yang dapat anda utilisasi

LightSwitch Developer Center

Site merupakan all-in-one training content bagi anda yang ingin memulai dari tutorial how to, video, podcast dan maih banyak lagi. Selain itu, juga terdapat banyak sample apps dan extension yang dapat anda pelajari ataupun extend untuk apps anda.

LightSwitch Team Blog
LightSwitch Facebook Page
LightSwitch on Twitter (@VSLightSwitch, #VisualStudio #LightSwitch)

Small Medium Business Developer Community (SMBDev)

SMB Dev merupakan komunitas Developer pada segmen Small & Medium Business (SMB) dan ditujukan sebagai learning reseource local Indonesia. Salah satu fokus utama teknologi yang sering dikupas oleh komunitas ini adalah Visual Studio LightSwitch dan utilisasinya pada SMB.
Selain itu, facebook group SMBDev menjadi sarana sharing berbagai news mengenai teknologi dan bisnis pada segmen SMB.

SMB Dev Facebook Group Page
Developer Tools Indonesia Forum

Anda juga bisa mendaftar ke milis SMBDev dengan mengirim email ke:
smbdev-subscribe@netindonesia.net

International Community

Terdapat juga komunitas dan learning resource mengenai LightSwitch yang anda bisa dapat komunitas internasional :

Mendapatkan Visual Studio LightSwitch

Untuk menggunakan Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, bisa didapatkan secara gratis dari Website MSDN Subscriptions bagi anda yang memiliki account MSDN Subscription.

Tersedia juga Full package product LightSwitch di retailer lokal Indonesia.

Download Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Trial (60 hari trial)
Purchase Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 melaui retailer lokal

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Windows Phone 7.5 (mango) Officially Released

Sagi Arsyad — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:58:00 GMT

Pagi ini (tepatnya pukul 01.00), muncul notifikasi mengenai update Windows Phone terbaru, yaitu Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Build 7720.68.

untuk update ke Mango, koneksi Phone ke PC, lalu lauch Zune software (install dulu jika belum ada).

klik pada Setting –> Phone –> Update

akan muncul pesan seperti dibawah ini (bervariasi berdasarkan model phone dan current WP7 version anda):

klik update, akan muncul layar progrres download dan instalasi seperti dibawah ini:

ada beberapa kasus (termasuk yg saya alami) bahwa anda perlu melakukan langkah di atas 2 kali. hal ini karena selain pada step diatas dilakukan instalasi Mango, dilakukan juga update firmware atapun update yang spesifik untuk model Phone anda.

at the end:

Mango (build 7720.68) is live and kicking on my Phone

untuk petuntujuknya dapat dicek pada page berikut:

http://mango.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/new-features.aspx

btw, saya menggunakan HTC Mozart.

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Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Launching

Sagi Arsyad — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:51:33 GMT

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Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Training Kit RTM

Sagi Arsyad — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:33:05 GMT

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM Training kit Update Juli 2011 sudah tersedia pada website MSDN

untuk mendownload offline version dari training kit ini, dapat didownload pada page:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23746

untuk diskusi atau Tanya jawab mengenai Visual Studio LightSwitch dapat disalurkan ke MSDN Indonesia Forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/id-id/devtoolsid/threads

untuk rekan-rekan komunitas yang tertarik menggunakan lightswitch dapat download trial version dari LightSwitch 2011 RTM ini lewat microsoft download center:

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch/try

untuk rekan-rekan yang tertarik implemetasi Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 ini sudah dapat purchase LightSwitch melalui Local Retailer, baik berupa Box (Retail) ataupun open license

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LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit

Sagi Arsyad — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:29:28 GMT

rekan-rekan komunitas yang telah mencoba Visual Studio LightSwitch dari masa beta test hingga RTM pasti merasakan bagaimana mudahnya dan cepatnya membuat aplikasi bisnis menggunakan visual studio lightswitch. namun ketika berurusan dengan harus meng-custumize beberapa hal pada tampilan (shella) ataupun theme dari light, mulai terasa ada suatu yang kurang. yaitu SDK atau toolkit untuk customization tersebut.

hari ini LightSwitch team merelease LightSwitch Extensibility Toolkit:
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0dfaa2eb-3951-49e7-ade7-b9343761e1d2

Extension toolkit ini bertujuan untuk kita dapat melakukan customization pada level tampilan ataupun logic dari LightSwitch. Tersedia juga Sample LightSwitch Extension yang bisa anda kembangkan:

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LightSwitch 2011 Starter Kits

Sagi Arsyad — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:10:03 GMT

Telah tersedia pada Microsoft Download Center beberapa starter kit atau template aplikasi yang dibuat menggunakan Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011

berikut starter kit tersebut:

Customer Service

Application for managing customer accounts and invoices.

Download now (C#) ›
Download now (VB.NET) ›

Expense Tracker

Application for creating and tracking expense reports.

Download now (C#) ›
Download now (VB.NET) ›

Issue Tracker

Application for tracking issues logged to an IT helpdesk.

Download now (C#) ›
Download now (VB.NET) ›

Job Candidate Tracker

Application for managing job applicants and open positions.

Download now (C#) ›
Download now (VB.NET) ›

Performance Review

Application for tracking employee performance data.

Download now (C#) ›
Download now (VB.NET) ›

Status Report

Application for tracking project updates and other statuses.

Download now (C#) ›
Download now (VB.NET) ›

Time Tracker

Application for managing employee time entry.

Download now (C#) ›
Download now (VB.NET) ›

untuk pertanyaan atau diskusi mengenai Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 ini dapat disalurkan ke forum MSDN Indonesia:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/id-id/devtoolsid/threads

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LightSwitch Beta 2 to RTM Notable Changes

Sagi Arsyad — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:39:47 GMT

Pada saat Visual Studio LightSwitch (VSLS) beta 2 release terjadi perubahan besar pada sisi user interface maupun beberapa engine internal VSLS. sehingga developer harus membuat ulang project yang mereka pernah buat pada VSLS Beta 1.

Namun kabar baik untuk pengguna VSLS 2011 RTM, developer tidak perlu untuk melakukan peruhban pada apps LightSwitch yang sebelumnya pernah dibuat pada VSLS beta 2. cukup compile ulang apps yang lama menggunkan VSLS RTM.

Terjadi juga Perubahan minor pada sisi tampilan, tapi untung nya tidak mem-break apps yang sebelumnya sudah kita buat di VSLS Beta2.

untuk daftar notable change VSLS beta 2 ke versi RTM, dapat sisimak pada artikel berikut:

The following is a list of notable changes that we made for RTM after Beta 2. If you were an early adopter and built applications on Beta 2 you may be impacted by these changes. This is in no way an exhaustive list. If you reported a bug through Connect and it’s not listed here, check to see the status of the bug by going to http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio and either click on “My Dashboard” at the top to see your submitted bugs or perform a search on “LightSwitch” to see all of them.

If you built applications with the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio LightSwitch your projects will open and build fine in the final RTM release. Beta 1 projects are not supported.
This following list represents the more notable behavior changes we made for RTM.

Changes to the Collection Refresh
In Beta2, the built-in Refresh command on Lists and Grids and the corresponding API would only refresh the screen by adding new data from the server. Existing data shown on the screen would not be refreshed. This also applied to any queries executed within the data workspace. If entities had been previously retrieved, they were not updated when re-queried. This behavior has now been changed so that any refresh or re-query of entities on the client cause new data to be added and existing unchanged entities to be updated with new values from the server. Any modified entities remain unaffected. The behavior when issuing queries on the server remains the same as Beta2. This new refresh behavior will allow users to view the latest updates from the server without having to lose any of the unsaved changes they might have made on the screen. If you are using the collection refresh button or API or have code that issues queries from the client then this updated behavior will be enabled once your application is published with the final release of LightSwitch. If you have designed your application screens and workflow for the Beta2 behavior you may need to account for the new behavior in your design.

Additional settings persisted
The window size for out of browser applications is persisted across application launches. If an end user resizes the application window to a specific size then that size will be remembered the next time the application launches. Similarly the minimized or maximized state of the Navigation Menu and Ribbon will be persisted. If the navigation menu or ribbon were minimized when the application is closed then they will remain minimized the next time the application is launched. This functionality will be automatically available to applications that are published with the final release of LightSwitch.

Multi-column sorts
Sorting on multiple columns has changed. Previously if your query was designed to sort on multiple columns the actual data being displayed on the screen would only be sorted by the first column specified. This has changed so when you publish your applications with the final release the screens will automatically begin sorting based on the multiple column sort orders as specified in the query.

Various Changes to Screens & Controls
We have made various changes to the screen and control layouts including better defaults and fixed behaviors on various properties. You will benefit from the new default properties when creating new items and any new behaviors will be automatically available when you publish your application with the final release.
Some examples include -
• Default layouts for screens created from parameterized queries – When creating new screens for parameterized queries the collection controls like grid and list will take up the entire screen width instead of being indented under the parameters control. Only new screens created with the final release will default to this behavior, you will have to modify existing screens manually if you want the new layout.
• Labels can autosize height to fit text – In Beta2 setting the labels Height property to Auto would not increase the labels height to fit the contents; instead the content would be clipped. With the final release a label with Height set to auto will resize its height to fit its content.
• Resize row and column layouts – New properties were added which when enabled will allow end users to resize the rows and columns for those screen layouts.
• You will be able to specify a screen data item be of type GUID. You will be able to choose GUID as a type in the “Add Data Item” dialog.
• In Beta2, there is a hard-coded minimum height in the tab control. We have fixed this issue, it now respects the layout settings in the properties.
• In Beta2, the data grid does not respect the regional settings for decimals in display mode. We have fixed this issue.
• When trying to use FindControl.ControlAvailable the ControlAvailable event was never raised in Beta 2 for a modal window. We have fixed this issue, this event is now raised whenever the modal window is opened.

source:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/thread/fee78304-0703-443d-bcd5-b0cf650643a1

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Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM at MSDN Subscriptions

Sagi Arsyad — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:01:10 GMT

Bagi rekan-rekan developer yang memiliki (lisensi) MSDN Subscriptions, Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 sudah dapat didownload melalui MSDN Subscriptions download center:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/id-id/subscriptions/securedownloads/default(en-us).aspx

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 License / FPP akan tersedia melaui local reseller pada tanggal 1 Agustus 2011.

Trial Version VSLS 2011 dapat download pada microsoft download center:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9778842 (web install)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=216813 (iso)

bagi rekan-rekan komunitas yang tidak sempat download VSLS trial ini, bisa japri ke saya untuk mendapatkan installer VSLS trial diatas.

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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM

Sagi Arsyad — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:19:09 GMT

Hari ini Microsoft meluncurkan Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, varian Visual Studio yang ditujukan untuk pembangunan aplikasi bisnis menjadi jauh lebih mudah dan cepat. Pengembangan data-driven apps. Misalnya data entry system, budget management system, inventory system, atau basic CRM dapat dibangun menggunakan Visual Studio LightSwitch dengan sangat mudah.

LightSwitch secara otomatis mengenerate User Interface berdasarkan data source yang kita punya, tanpa code. Selain itu juga terbentuk fungsional Create, Read, Update dan Delete data pada User Interface yang digenerate LightSwitch.

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 trial sudah dapat didownload pada halaman Microsoft Download Center:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26830

Silahkan kunjungi Website LightSwitch untuk mendapatkan info lebih lanjut mengenai Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011. atau rekan-rekan developer yang tertarik untuk mengikuti informasi terbaru mengenai Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 dan implementasinya pada pengembangan aplikasi bisnis, dapat mengikuti komunitas Small Medium Business Developer Community.

Developer resource mengenai Visual Studio LightSwitch, dapat dibuka pada:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/id-id/lightswitch

tersedia juga forum MSDN Mengenai LightSwitch:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/id-id/category/vslightswitch

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Visual Studio 2010 Training kit Update Juni 2011

Sagi Arsyad — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:25:01 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Training kit Update Juni 2011 sudah tersedia pada website MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/id-id/VS2010TrainingCourse

untuk mendownload offline version dari training kit ini, dapat didownload pada page:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=23507

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SMB Dev Event: Efesiensi dalam Pengembangan Aplikasi Bisnis

Sagi Arsyad — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:59:08 GMT

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Visual Studio vNext

Sagi Arsyad — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:49:15 GMT

Rekan rekan developer,

Video event tech.ed 2011 North America sudah tersedia di channel 9

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011

satu hal yang cukup menarik, pada salah satu speech nya, ditampilkan beberapa fitur baru untuk Visual Studio v.Next (VS2012?)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/FDN03

saya akan secara berkala mendownload video-video ini. Untuk rekan-rekan yang mengikuti event SMBDev pada tanggal 27 mei ini, dapat mengcopy dari saya

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Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview Ready to Download

Sagi Arsyad — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:49:56 GMT

Nampaknya IE team terkena “penyakit” teamnya google chrome, dimana release antar version sangat dekat. baru bulan lalu release IE 9, hari ini IE10 platform preview sudah bisa dicoba

anda dapat download keduanya pada page ini:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Info/Downloads/Default.html

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edit: Microsoft mengkonfirmasi bahwa IE10 tidak akan mensupport Windows Vista

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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is Ready to Download

Sagi Arsyad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:27:12 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 sudah ready di MSDN Subscribtion sejak hari ini, dan available untuk umum sekitar 2-3 hari lagi.

Untuk announcement dan detail VS 2010 SP1, dapat dibuka di:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/03/08/announcing-visual-studio-2010-service-pack-1.aspx

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Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 is coming soon

Sagi Arsyad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:11:42 GMT

SomaSegar (Sr. VP of Developer Division at Microsoft), announced that Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 will be coming soon.

One question that comes up a lot is, what can LightSwitch do versus what can Visual Studio Professional do?

Visual Studio LightSwitch is a specialist tool for building line-of-business applications for the desktop and cloud, while Visual Studio Professional is a generalist tool for building anything you can imaging for Microsoft platforms.

Take a look at this feature matrix:

	Visual Studio LightSwitch	Visual Studio Professional
LightSwitch Runtime	Yes	Yes¹
Visual Studio Project System	Yes	Yes
IntelliSense	Yes	Yes
Team Explorer (Team Foundation Server integration)	-^{2, 3}	Yes³
*LIGHTSWITCH APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT*
Predefined Screen Templates	Yes	Yes¹
Application Skinning and Theming	Yes	Yes¹
Data Entity Designer	Yes	Yes¹
Business-oriented Data Types (e.g. EmailAddress, PhoneNumber, etc.)	Yes	Yes¹
Automatic Data Input Validation	Yes	Yes¹
Windows Azure Deployment	Yes	Yes¹
SQL Azure Support	Yes	Yes
*LANGUAGES, EDITORS & COMPILERS*
Visual Basic	Yes	Yes
Visual C#	Yes	Yes
Visual C++	-	Yes
Visual F#	-	Yes
HTML/JavaScript	-	Yes
Silverlight/XAML Editor	-	Yes
*PROJECT TYPES*
LightSwitch Application	Yes	Yes¹
ASP.NET	-	Yes
ASP.NET AJAX	-	Yes
ASP.NET MVC	-	Yes
Console Application	-	Yes
Database Projects	-	Yes
Office Applications & Add-ins	-	Yes
Setup Projects	-	Yes
SharePoint Applications & WebParts	-	Yes
Test Projects	-	Yes
Visual Studio Add-ins	-	Yes
Windows Forms	-	Yes
Windows Phone	-	Yes
WCF	-	Yes
WPF	-	Yes
XNA Games	-	Yes

1 Only available for LightSwitch applications. Requires Visual Studio LightSwitch and Visual Studio Professional to both be installed.
2 Team Explorer will integrate with LightSwitch but must be installed separately.
3 Requires a Team Foundation Server Client Access License (CAL).

source:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dseven/archive/2011/03/08/visual-studio-lightswitch-feature-matrix.aspx

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