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LightSwitch is a rapid application development tool for creating data-centric apps for business environments.

LightSwitch is a rapid application development tool for creating data-centric Silverlight or HTML5 applications. Silverlight client can be extended using custom controls and OData or RIA Services data sources. LightSwitch applications focus solely on data entry and provide no built-in support for reporting, although 3rd-party reporting extensions are available. Applications created with LightSwitch can be deployed as Windows desktop applications, in a 3-tiered LAN configuration, as web applications hosted on IIS 7, or using the Microsoft Azure platform.

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How to get all the females?

I would like to get the gender for calculations, for example the male and female options are in one column. I would like to get all male or all female for calculation. I have a "computed property" which gives me list of all the items along with…
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LightSwitch Build Error: The target "CreateManifestResourceNames" does not exist in the project

I have been banging my head against the wall about this problem with a LightSwitch project. It runs just fine inside VS 2013, but on all but one of our developers' PCs the automated build with msbuild fails. We have also been unable to run these…
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Visual Studio LightSwitch will not Build

I'm working with an old C# LightSwitch HTML project that connects to SharePoint and I need to make a few changes. Unfortunately not enough to justify migrating to another technology/platform, but anyways... I fire up my Visual Studio 2015 and the…
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LightSwitch Calendar Screen

I'm looking for a HTML5 Visual Studio LightSwitch, calendar screen template or extension, similar to outlook or Google calendar. Or is there a way to implement Google's calendar efficiently and legally? For example. This preferably needs to be…
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How to use Open RIA Services packages from NuGet

I am an experienced developer trying to add a WCF RIA Services class library to a LightSwitch 2013 desktop app and I'm a little confused on how to get started... I know that Microsoft's WCF RIA Services will no longer be updated, it has been…
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LightSwitch: Distributed transactions on Azure

Dears, I have scenarios where I have to perform updates on the intrinsic database of LightSwitch and call some SQL stored procedures in the save pipeline all in ONE TRANSACTION, such that if an error happened in the LS save pipeline then my stored…
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Forcefully saving changes in light switch form (screen two and reflecting it on screen one) using share point lists and libraries

I have a form created in Light switch HTML Application (Visual C#). Here is the table: Which calculates a budget from three fields. One of them is the total that takes value from another screen (By clicking on insert item, one can add new items…
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SQL Server Encryption/Decryption with C#

I am working on a project and the next thing I want to learn is about adding sensitive data, and encrypting/decrypting it. I Have done the basics on this already with the below code (Using SQL SERVER): --STEP 1, CREATE DATABASE MASTER KEY USE…
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How to set default value on LightSwitch 2013 table?

I'm building a project on LightSwitch 2013 - Visual Studio 2013. I have a data table on the screen that has 5 rows. I want that the first row will be selected by default when the user navigate to that screen. I know how to do that with…
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Lightswitch Cannot read property 'read' of undefined

I was working with a friend on a Lightswitch HTML Client and he has it stored on git through Visual Studio Online. So he added me to his team and I downloaded the server copy to my local machine. Well now, everytime I try to access data from those…
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Log Out Button For LightSwitch Desktop Application (Not Web App)

How do I add Log Out Button like change password button at the top right corner? If the answer is I can't, how do I add in screen command bar?
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How to customize the global navigation menu in LightSwitch - Visual Studio 2013

I have created one LightSwitch Web App HTML client using C# in Visual Studio 2013. I have connected to the External DB and loaded around 10 tables and created 3 screen templates (Browse, View and Add/Edit) for each table. while running my…
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Publishing lightswitch app via command line does not work

I have been having some issues getting a lightswitch app to publish to a package outside of visual studio. I think I am probably using the wrong command, but I cant find any information about what commands I should use. My command looks like this:…
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Lightswitch 2013 desktop client says it installed, but nothing there on start menu

I'm trying to publish updates to my lightswitch 2013 project to an azure website. After publishing, I can go to http://xxxxx.azurewebsites.net/client/ and I get the message that the "App has installed successfully. Please launch this application…
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Underlining Hyperlinks in LightSwitch HTML5 client

I'm trying to create some in-line hyperlinks in my tables to allow people to edit/delete the selected item (and to provide bread-crumb style navigation links at the top of the screen). To achieve this, I've created a customscripts.js file as…
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