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Hi, Is there a chance to have support for Lightswitch. It would be very nice to have a all in on solution to develop a Lightswitch app for a small applications. I can foresee the following situations. 1. have a Lightspeed model for a fairly big database. 2. Make a submodel for a handfull of tables 3. Use this submodel for fast prototype or proof of concepts in Lightswitch 4a. Extend that Lightswitch app to use more and more tables and provide more and more features 4b. Have multiple small lightswitch app which can see only a portion of the whole datamodel (for example Order processing, ticket tracking etc) 5. And we have a master model which is consistent across the whole application pool and can be developed in a fairly independent way ,and HAVE a very fast application developing and prototyping possibility with the Ligtswitch.
Can we have it in the near future, or I need to start search/evaluate another fast prototyping solutions.
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We have looked at an early version of LightSwitch, though I have to admit we haven't checked in on the RTM version. At the time LightSwitch wasn't extensible to use third-party ORMs such as LightSpeed, it was hardwired to the Microsoft Entity Framework. If that has changed in RTM, then we could certainly investigate supporting LightSwitch, though I couldn't make any promises on timescales. Do you know if there is an extensibility point for third-party ORMs? |
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Hi,
I only know that there is a possibility to use an 'External Datasource' which is now practically a WCF service or another WEB dataservice. I though there can be a method to wrap an ORM DAL in such a service and use it from Lightswitch. I only know one ORM which is providing out of a box a WCF service that is the Devforce from Ideablade. Another one LLBGenPro which can generate WCF service. But I interested to get it work with Lightspeed. :D
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Check out our RIA Services support: http://www.mindscapehq.com/documentation/lightspeed/Building-Silverlight-Applications-/Using-WCF-RIA-Services-with-LightSpeed The user guide is written in terms of consuming the RIA Service from Silverlight, but I believe that it would be compatible with the LightSwitch Web data service format. |
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