Most of you may have already read an earlier post on how to send emails from LightSwitch (seen here). This post extends what was learned in that previous post, and shows how to wire up a button to send an email on demand.That previous post showed a specific function that would send out an email when an entity was added to the database. A helper class was created in the Server project of the LightSwitch solution. Then, when the new record was created in the database, that server code was called and an email went out. Here is how I did that… Read More »
Article source: http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/lightswitch/microsoft-lightswitch-sending-emails-from-the-client/
I recently watched a great webcast by Rich Dudley in which Rich made some very interesting points about what Gartner Research calls “Citizen Developers”. I was immediately intrigued by this Gartner information so I dug a little deeper into this citizen developer thing, and here is what I found…
According to Gartner, “Citizen developers will be building at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014…”. That, according to the report titled “Citizen Developers Are Poised to Grow”.
Represented by about 6 million information workers, these “latent” application developers make up that same Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch target market.
Very interesting, indeed!
Article source: http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/lightswitch/microsoft-lightswitch-championing-the-citizen-developer/
On September 12th I presented an introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 to the Edmonton Dot Net User Group (EDMUG.Net).
Here is a link to the slide deck and take-away notes from the presentation…
http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/dot-net-development/edmug-lightswitch-introduction/
Cheers!
On September 12, 2011 I’ll be speaking at the Edmonton .Net User Group (EDMUG). I’ll be presenting an overview of the recently released Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011. RSVP via the EDMUG Meetup site at www.EDMUG.net.
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