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http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch>
>Just downloaded the Beta 2 (released March 15th), and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. The included tools are pretty impressive. Still no built-in reporting capabilities though :(
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>It creates SilverLight applications which can be run as a stand-alone app or used in the browser. Supports local DB or Azure. In theory can run on a Mac and/or Linux or whatever OS has a silverlight runtime/browser plugin.
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>I have to say I think this thing is showing real promise. I always heard that Delphi was cool because it was both RAD and you could really get under the hood when you needed/wanted to... that's my impression of LightSwitch so far.
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>Anyone else playing with it?
Yeah, reporting is the big missing piece. Maybe Stonefield will jump on that. In the meantime, check out Beth Massi's recent video:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/03/17/channel-9-interview-walkthrough-of-a-real-world-lightswitch-application.aspxThey show a querying component that filters the data, which can then be exported to Excel. Still not a report, but getting closer. It sounds like they will be releasing the code.