THE NEW!! Visual Studio 2013 Visual Studio is a comprehensive collection of tools and services to help you create a wide variety of apps, both for the Microsoft platform and beyond. Visual Studio also connects all of your projects, teams, and stakeholders. Now your team can work with greater agility from virtually anywhere—irrespective of development tool, including Eclipse and Xcode. Whether you’re designing mission-critical .NET apps, writing blazing fast code with C++ AMP, or testing and debugging a cloud-connected HTML/JavaScript app that runs on many devices, join millions of developers worldwide in choosing Visual Studio as your essential development environment. The recently released Visual Studio 2013 introduces a new application type called a Cloud Business App. This brings together the LightSwitch rapid application builder and the Office 365 cloud platform. LightSwitch, introduced in 2010, allows you to define data tables using a simple visual designer, and then generates screens for viewing and editing the data. The original version built Silverlight clients, but the latest incarnation supports responsive HTML clients. You can add snippets of code, using JavaScript on the client or C# on the server. A Cloud Business App throws SharePoint or Office 365 into the mix. Lack of documentation and perplexing deployment dialogs spoil the ease of use, as does a bug which prevents the saving of data in debug mode, but I was eventually able to deploy a simple app to an Office 365 team site.visual studio Cloud Business Apps are interesting for a couple of reasons. One is that building line of business applications on Microsoft’s platform is in some respects harder today than it was 10 years ago, hence the LightSwitch focus on easy development. Secondly, Office 365 and Azure now form a more strategic platform than the Windows client, since they are cloud-based and can support cross-platform clients.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 13:14:04 +0000
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