Paul Ferrill - SharePoint Apps with LightSwitch

Copyright 2012 Paul Ferrill

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While it would probably suffice to say this book is for any person interested in the Visual Studio LightSwitch product by itself, the focus is on building applications specifically targeted at SharePoint. Programming experience isnt necessary, but I will look at writing code to add functionality to some of the examples. Its entirely possible to build fully functional Visual Studio LightSwitch applications without writing a single line of code if thats what youre looking for.

Experienced programmers who are looking for a way to quickly and efficiently build stand-alone applications to interact with a SharePoint site should benefit from the book as well. The programming model is completely different from the typical SharePoint development cycle, so expect to see some new material. There are, however, enough similarities to building typical Windows Forms apps that you should be able to pick it up quickly enough.

, introduces you to the product itself and discusses some of the concepts used in developing stand-alone applications. The good news is you can use the same code to build web applications as well. Ill also discuss some of the key pieces of SharePoint, since thats the main target.

, covers the installation of both Visual Studio LightSwitch and SharePoint.

, shows you how to build simple applications requiring no coding.

, moves into slightly more complex samples with some code to perform specific functions.

, details the integration of LightSwitch applications with other data sources like CSV files, importing and exporting to Excel, a SQLite database, and Google data.