Has anyone used Lightswitch?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm looking for some opinions from these parts...if anyone has any experience with it. Kind of new, though.

[BlindSniper]

At this moment it just looks like regular Visual Studio with more templates and wizards. I'm downloading it now to (hopefully) disprove my theory.

[BlindSniper]

I don't know if I'm the right person to judge Lightswitch, But it looks fine, it creates a very nice looking sexy wpf application(that is a bit slow on my core I5 2500k), but I don't actually ever build data-related apps, so I can't say if it is any good.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hmmm, runs on Silverlight. Weren't people announcing the imminent demise of Silverlight as an MS strategy a month or two back? Was that right up there with the perpetual announcements that VB6 is dead?

[Dave Sell]

Following up - this article discusses the next version of Lightswitch: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/worlds...28?tag=nl.e539

I think it has potential...

[dilettante]

Launched last year as an out-of-band release, I’m excited to announce that LightSwitch is now a core part of the Visual Studio product line! LightSwitch will be available through Visual Studio 11 Professional, Premium and Ultimate

Visual Studio 11 Product Line-up Announced


Also see some real dope-dreaming about this dead-on-arrival product at Visual Studio LightSwitch: Will it emerge from sleeper status?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I forgot about this thread. In the interim, my boss tried it out and found that the performance of LightSwitch was abysmal. The tool was pretty good, but the resulting apps were painfully slow.