LightSwitch is now part of Visual Studio 11 Beta

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Microsoft Visual Studio
LightSwitch 2011

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LightSwitch Can Do

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LightSwitch Starter Kits for Common Business Needs

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Customize Your App with LightSwitch Extensions

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What is Visual Studio LightSwitch?

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a simplified self-service development tool that enables you to build business applications quickly and easily for the desktop and cloud. What can your business do with LightSwitch? Watch this brief introduction to find out.

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ComponentOne LightSwitch Extension

OLAP for LightSwitch provides analytical processing features similar to those found in Microsoft Excel Pivot tables and charts. Users of all skill levels can use OLAP to create interactive tables, charts, and reports that give drag-and-drop views for data analysis in seconds.

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DevExpress LightSwitch Extension

DevExpress has added LightSwitch support to its award-winning reporting platform, the XtraReports Suite. With the suite you can create a wide range of business reports for the LightSwitch platform, from a simple contact list to an advanced sales report.

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DevExpress LightSwitch Extension

Whether you are building a data-entry application or displaying information from your database, DevExpress Data Editors for LightSwitch greatly simplify the way you deliver information to end users.

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First Floor LightSwitch Extension

Document Toolkit for LightSwitch is an easy-to-use document viewer for LightSwitch applications. View documents and reports in LightSwitch applications that are deployed to the desktop and the web.

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Infragistics LightSwitch Extension

NetAdvantage for LightSwitch enables LightSwitch users to easily create and style high-performance, full-featured user interfaces effortlessly.

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RSSBus LightSwitch Extension

The Data Provider extensions help you connect your application to the unique data types found in a variety of common services and frameworks. Using these extensions, you can synchronize data from QuickBooks, Google, Salesforce, and PowerShell.

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