C H A P T E R  1

Forms Over Data and Beyond

If you've ever gone skydiving, you'll recognize that using Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is much like a skydiving experience.

As you jump from the airplane at 10,000 feet, you'd see a magnificent view of countryside, cities, and towns linked together by roads, railways, and other pieces of infrastructure. A high-level view of LightSwitch is rather like that. It consists of several large pieces that are all interconnected and synchronized together.

Of course, jumping from an airplane can be scary and so too can using LightSwitch, particularly if you start to push toward the technical limitations of the product. Although this book doesn't provide a cure for vertigo, we hope that the contents will ...

Get Pro Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Development now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.