Benefits Microsoft LightSwitch 2011

Why use Microsoft LightSwitch?        ( Source Microsoft.com)

Microsoft Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ 2011 is a flexible development tool that enables developers of all skill levels to quickly create and deploy great looking business applications for the desktop and the cloud. With timesaving tools and templates, and an intuitive development environment, Visual Studio LightSwitch helps speed the development and reduces the complexity of everything from UI design to Windows Azure Cloud Deployment. With Visual Studio LightSwitch it is finally practical to create affordable, scalable custom software solutions that bridge the gaps between existing systems and data and help provide comprehensive, user-friendly views of your business data.

With Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, you can dramatically decrease the time it takes to build a custom application that connects with existing applications, legacy systems and web services. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 automatically handles the routine code, letting you focus on developing the custom logic that makes your application unique.

Flexibility for Today and Tomorrow

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 gives you the flexibility to keep your technology and business options open, while building a practical, scalable application to match your current needs. With Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 you can easily interoperate with your existing data systems and web services, choose from a wide range of hosting and deployment options – even add 3rd party plugins as needs change.

Top ten benefits

Build business applications like they

were created by a professional designer Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 comes with an extensible set of pre-built Application Shells that can give your application the familiar feel of popular Microsoft software.

Build a better application faster

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 includes templates for the most common types of business applications. It also contains predefined data types for commonly used fields, like phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

Simplify development

The intuitive Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 development environment simplifies the development experience and provides assistance when you need it – displaying tools specific to the task at hand. In this environment, you can access the tools you need, when you need them.

Evolve your application as

business needs change The pre-built templates and components in Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 are fully extensible, so adding additional features to your application as needed is fast and easy.

Quickly add user-friendly features

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 applications support exporting data to Microsoft Office Excel for easy sharing and reporting, without requiring additional work on your end.Use the asynchronous data loading routines in Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 to build applications that remain responsive while loading data.

Easily add powerful authentication features

Built-in authentication models make it simple to provide different users with varying degrees of access and authorization. Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 automatically generates the administration console for you, giving the administrator a simple, intuitive way to set user roles and permissions.

Create a custom application for

the way you do business Build your application to do exactly what you need it to. Visual Studio LightSwitch lets you create custom business logic and rules that are unique to your particular business and users.

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 makes it easy to collect, analyze and reuse information from a variety of data sources including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Azure, Microsoft SharePoint and other 3rd party databases, helping you get the most of your business information.

Customize using extensions

Custom extensions such as Money and Phone Number business types are included in LightSwitch. Picture and Text layout extensions provide new ways to present data on screen. You can use shell extensions and theme extensions to change the appearance and behavior of an application by changing just one setting.

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is a companion to Visual Studio Professional, Premium and Ultimate Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 works seamlessly with Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate giving you the best of both.

LightSwitch uses the same project templates as Visual Studio Professional making it easy to carry applications into that IDE. If your application evolves to the point where you need to access the tools and features of a more powerful development environment – just upgrade.

Speed Deployment and Updates

With Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, you can create one application that can be deployed to desktop clients, browser clients or through the cloud. You can choose the best deployment method based on how and where people work.