After nearly a full year in beta, Visual Studio LightSwitch was released on July 26. And not a moment too soon: Microsoft needs an approachable line-of-business dev tool in its bag of tricks and ...

The LightSwitch RAD platform generates apps with "no coding required." What's in it for you? .NET apps that are easier to maintain and extensions built on the Managed Extensibility Framework.

Microsoft announced the release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 on Tuesday -- which is described as a "simplified self-service development tool" that allows for the creation of.NET applications that ...

Microsoft has had a checkered history in the “casual” development tool market. The company hit home runs with the original Access database and the original Visual Basic. But many of its other runners ...

One of the Holy Grails of application development has been to allow a businessperson to build his or her own application without needing a professional programmer. Over the years, numerous attempts at ...

Microsoft is launching its Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 tool for cloud and desktop development on July 26, according to the company's own LightSwitch Web page. Visual Studio LightSwitch, codenamed ...

Microsoft is releasing its Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 product this week, a developer tool aimed at nonprofessional coders. On Tuesday, LightSwitch 2011 was made available to MSDN subscribers.

I’m taking a couple weeks off before the busiest part of Microsoft’s 2012 kicks into full gear. But never fear: The Microsoft watching will go on while I’m gone. I’ve asked a few illustrious members ...

Microsoft plans to issue on Tuesday a second beta release of its Visual Studio LightSwitch development tool that is intended to enable nonprogrammers to build Windows business applications via a ...

In late summer of 2011, Microsoft released the first version of Visual Studio LightSwitch, offering its users a way to create high-quality business applications for the desktop and the cloud with ...

Microsoft is releasing its Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 product this week, a developer tool aimed at nonprofessional coders. On Tuesday, LightSwitch 2011 was made available to MSDN subscribers.