Hi Kevin,

my problem with LightSwitch is that it does NOT give the business user enough power to create real apps. You may not remember, but in the old Fox days, Pat Adams (the first Fox networking guru) was a PhD economist, who wrote a financial app for Amex. Walt Kennamer (initial author of foxtools.fll, I believe) was a CPA write CPA-type apps. I want to give users all the power they need to articulate their domain knowledge. I'm pleased to be there when they need me. I shouldn't be doing what they can do.

Hank

>>More info on Kittyhawk, now officially named Visual Studio LightSwitch http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-lightswitch-building-business-apps-for-web-pcs-and-cloud/6981
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>>- Template driven
>>- Can be enhanced with C# or VB.NET
>>- Microsoft's Dave Medlin says, "“This hearkens back to Visual FoxPro, where you could develop and test at the same time.”
>>- Former Fox people are on the LightSwitch team
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>This whole thing is a terrible idea.
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>1) There's going to be a whole slew of poorly designed and developed apps out there - AKA Maintenance nightmare
>2) Template-driven?? Sounds like Yahoo Page Builder
>3) Those of us who are proefessionals could loose work to someone who's got little to no experience just because they can put together an 'app' in much less time.
>4) "... it constitutes an act of condescension toward domain-expert developers." I agree completely
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>I'v got a bad feeling about this