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SharePoint LOB Development using Visual

Studio LightSwitch

Where in the world of SharePoint does it fit?Enrique Lima

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Hello, my name is …

• Enrique Lima• enrique@collaborateam.com• Microsoft Community Contributor• Member of the Geekswithblogs.net Community -

Influencer– http://geekswithblogs.net/enriquelima

• @enriquelima - twitter.com/enriquelima

• Member of INETA

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We interrupt this program …

• Remember VB 6?• How easy it was to build a quick an easy

solution with data access?• How simple it was to drive an idea and

make it into a prototype?• Been dealing with the complexities of

SharePoint Development?• WAIT NO MORE!!!

The following represents a fictitious ad and a bad attempt at opening humor.No lists, libraries or site collections have been hurt in the process.

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Agenda

• What is Visual Studio LightSwitch?• What is SharePoint?• Do they have a place together?• Food for thought• Demo

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What is Visual Studio LightSwitch?

• RAD• Business application focused• Basic principles: – get data– display data– put data

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What is SharePoint?

• Can we consider it a data repository?• What types of data can we find?• Lists? Libraries?• What about Authentication?• And where did you leave

Authorization?

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Do they have a place together?

• Uses SharePoint as a data source/repository

• Shift in mindset• But? But? Where do we deploy? And

How?

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Food for thought

• InfoPath vs. LightSwitch• How does it work?– Lists–Managed Metadata Services

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demo

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In closing …

• Who moved my cheese?• Would it help deliver better

solutions?• What about adoption?

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Resources

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch

• http://geekswithblogs.net/enriquelima• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/

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