Jack @ ASP.NET

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch helps you solve specific business needs by enabling you to quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family. Visual Studio LightSwitch is designed to simplify and shorten the development of typical forms-over-data business applications.

Scenario: forms-over-data business
Advantages:

•  simplify and shorten the development
•  you do not need to know .net and etc.

The build-in starter kit
Customer Service
Application for managing customer accounts and invoices.

Expense Tracker
Application for creating and tracking expense reports.

Issue Tracker
Application for tracking issues logged to an IT helpdesk.

Job Candidate Tracker
Application for managing job applicants and open positions.

Performance Review
Application for tracking employee performance data.

Status Report
Application for tracking project updates and other statuses.

Time Tracker
Application for managing employee time entry.

My visual studio 2010 crashed when creating a New Project. My environment is Windows 7 – 64 bit, Visual Studio 2010. And after google the solution, if got the solution

Delete or move the contents of C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache

Hope it may help the one also met this problem

On machines with a 64-bit OS, uninstall of Office 2007 will break the VS 2008 web designer.  You will find that the VS designer won’t be able to load, and any attempts to switch to Design View will hang the product.  Note that 32-bit machines are not affected and neither are other VS releases.

The root cause of this problem is that Office 2007 and the VS 2008 web designer both share a component, 32-bit MSXML5.  When Office 2007 uninstalls or gets upgraded, MSXML5 is removed yet Visual Studio still needs it.

If you are affected by this issue, there are workarounds where you may not have to completely reinstall Visual Studio.  However, the steps are different depending on how Office 2007 got removed (uninstall vs. upgrade to Office 2010) and also if you have VWD Express or a full product.

Workaround if you manually uninstalled Office 2007 (i.e. Add/Remove Programs) AND have a non-Express version of VS 2008:

1. Go to Add/Remove Programs
2. Uninstall “Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component“
3. Reinstall “Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component” -
• You will need the VS install media: the product DVD or mount an ISO image
• Go to WCU\WebDesignerCore folder and run WebDesignerCore.exe.
• Setup does not have UI, so please simply wait about 5 minutes or watch msiexec activity in the Task Manager.
• Verify that Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component reappears in Add/Remove Programs.
• WebDesignerCore.exe installs RTM version.
4. If your VS 2008 has been updated to SP1, you have to reinstall SP1 to update the Web Authoring Component you installed in Step 3.

Workaround if you manually uninstalled Office 2007 (i.e. Add/Remove Programs) AND have Visual Web Developer Express 2008:

1. Go to Add/Remove Programs  
2. Uninstall “Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component“
3. Reinstall Visual Web Developer Express 2008/SP1
   (SP1 for Express is not a separate install thus the need to reinstall the entire product)

Industry standards and innovation took center stage at MIX10, as Microsoft Corp. made a series of announcements that underscore the company’s commitment to interoperability and performance on the Web. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer at Microsoft, unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview including expanded support for HTML5, hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new JavaScript engine. Together these allow developers to use the same markup and deliver graphically and functionally rich Web applications that take advantage of modern PC hardware through a modern operating system.

Microsoft also announced that it will contribute to the development of new features and enhancements in the jQuery JavaScript Library and shared the release of new software development kits (SDKs) for the Open Data Protocol (OData) that make it easier for developers to access data from the cloud to create more compelling cross-platform Web applications.

As part of Microsoft’s broad engagement with open source communities, Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie today announced that Microsoft is investing resources to contribute to the development of the jQuery JavaScript Library to help improve the development process of standards-based Web applications. Microsoft will also work to provide better interoperability between ASP.NET and the jQuery JavaScript Library by enhancing ASP.NET so .NET developers can better incorporate jQuery capabilities. In addition, Microsoft will actively promote and distribute versions of the jQuery JavaScript Library by packaging it with popular products such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2. As a first step, Microsoft will contribute a templating engine to the jQuery JavaScript Library Team to simplify Web applications.