[AccessD] LightSwitch (was: Automating web page entry (was: Scrollbutton))

Hi Gustav --

Thank you for your note.
Starting from your link I have got to this August VSLive's KeyNote "A
Glimpse of the Future..." dedicated to LightSwitch. 
And I have watched that almost one hour long video recording. 
But I'm still not convinced about going to play with this tool.
IMO it's now:

- a good prototyping tool;
- a good MS marketing tool;

I will wait for release.
Maybe even for version #2 release.

Do you know how metadata of this tool are organized?
Is there technical documentation describing that metadata?

Thank you.

-- Shamil

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:15 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] LightSwitch (was: Automating web page entry (was:
Scrollbutton))

Hi John (et al)

It's about time you spend some hours with the beta of LightSwitch, the new
rapid development "shell" to Visual Studio 2010:

  http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch 

and watch the tutorial videos. It is an amazing piece of software - kind of
what Access could have been, had the Access team primarily had the developer
in mind.

The way controls of screens (= forms) are organized is so clever that you
wonder why no one has figured this out before. Note too how you can change
"skin" from a normal desktop app to a highly optimized touch-screen app, and
how - by flipping a switch - you change the resulting app from a desktop app
to a web app. And everything behind the scene you can customize and expand
in C# or VB.NET.

/gustav