Microsoft Announces a New Visual Studio Product: Visual Studio LightSwitch

At VSLive today and within his blog, Jason Zander of Microsoft announced one of the most closely guarded development projects from Microsoft -- Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch. This was announced as "the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and the cloud."

Dubbed with the codename "KittyHawk" this project has been in the works for quite a while at Microsoft.

LightSwitch is a project that should make people think of Visual Basic in the early days. Visual Basic originally made building applications easier. In similar ways, LightSwitch makes it easier to build solutions. Using pre-built templates and other tools, development for many standard applications targeting windows clients or Windows Azure should be quicker and easier. Additionally, LightSwitch can build Silverlight applications that run both in or out of the browser.



The beta for Visual Studio LightSwitch will be available for download on August 23rd. You should be able to find it on the LightSwitch site when it is made available.



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I've wondered this for a while now, but how does MS come up with code names like "Whidbey", "Orcas", "Rosario", "Longhorn", "KittyHawk"? Too bad some of the cool codenames didn't become the actual product's name :(

So what's new in VS LightSwitch? All I'm seeing so far is just a bunch of templates being added, is there any features added? Any of the VS2010 bugs fixed in it? Or is it them just charging you for a version VS that has stuff that could easily be added to VS2010 SP1?

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I've wondered this for a while now, but how does MS come up with code names like "Whidbey", "Orcas", "Rosario", "Longhorn", "KittyHawk"? Too bad some of the cool codenames didn't become the actual product's name :(?

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Here's a list of the codenames, with explanations of origin for many of them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...soft_codenames

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Here's a list of the codenames, with explanations of origin for many of them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...soft_codenames

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No, no, no; I'm curious to why MS chooses names like those for their product's codenames, not the origins of the codenames themselves.

The eventual names are decided by marketing and administration types. The developers need a name to work with instead of saying things like "well 'it' is coming along fine."

We seen a demo of kittyhawk back in 2009 I think it was and it was still at such an early stage. It has come a long way since then and is worth taking a look into

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No, no, no; I'm curious to why MS chooses names like those for their product's codenames, not the origins of the codenames themselves.

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I think Microsoft base their product names around Bill Gates' house. ;) Although, in the case of Kitty hawk wasn't that where the wright brothers first flew their plane? Maybe they thought the product would take off.

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We seen a demo of kittyhawk back in 2009 I think it was and it was still at such an early stage. It has come a long way since then and is worth taking a look into

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Post #6 and #7 are duplicates, is it a forum bug?

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Post #6 and #7 are duplicates, is it a forum bug?

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I already reported the problem.

I've had the double posted thing happen to me before. It isn't so much a bug as it is inpatience. When I click submit and don't immediately see some kind of response, I have a habit of clicking submit again. Sometimes that results in a double post. I suspect that is what happened here.

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I've had the double posted thing happen to me before. It isn't so much a bug as it is inpatience. When I click submit and don't immediately see some kind of response, I have a habit of clicking submit again. Sometimes that results in a double post. I suspect that is what happened here.

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They should put in a quick JS call to disable the button on the page while the postback is happening

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I've had the double posted thing happen to me before. It isn't so much a bug as it is inpatience. When I click submit and don't immediately see some kind of response, I have a habit of clicking submit again. Sometimes that results in a double post. I suspect that is what happened here.

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No double click, forums were deathly slow last night and I have heard about this issue on other forums too.

Well I watched about 15 minutes of the keynote on the LightSwitch website and it basically just looks like a nice easy way for beginners to build applications and databases. I dont see it being of any value to anyone who already knows how to write an application and build a database though...