Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 03:15:08 CDT 2011
Hello All, I saw a presentation on Lightswitch a few months ago. I have to say I was very impressed. IMO, Lightswitch was giving tools to common people that enabled them to build web apps as fast as we built database apps in the 90's with Access. The presenter used the concept of two types of users / developers, a big D and a little d. The little d is the guy in the small business, or in the IT hardware dept and he needs an app for raising Cap Ex. In lightswitch he can code that in 1 hour and he can get back to his Server room. For the big D, there are also lots of powerful tools that mean he can use lightswitch for a lot of a software project. It really reminded me of the 90's when C++ existed and then we get Access with VBA. Thanks Mark On 11 September 2011 12:01, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi Shamil > > I did consider that but funding will never be fat. The organisation counts > only a few hundred members, and as the backends are only 150 MB I will face > no scaling issue. It is exactly what LS is targeted for, so for this reason > alone I will do the test. It may, of course, prove unsatisfactory in some > way and if so I will for sure choose the WinForms route which works very > well for me. > > We have one client where I have used the click-once deployment method and > it works very well. Even the smallest modification, which I can code in > minutes, gets deployed at once as it just requires a few default clicks and > a password to the clients local FTP server and it has been published. It > can't be easier and it just works. > > /gustav > > > >>> shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru 11-09-2011 10:49 >>> > Hi Gustav -- > > <<< > However, the app contains nothing fancy - it's really a typical > Line Of Business app taking care of everything a small > organization needs - exactly what LightSwitch is for. > >>> > Why then not make it (3/n-tiered) WinForms application, and when it will be > really needed and so there will be funding for that UI work then make a > "fancy" > > - SilverLight, > - MS LightSwitch, > - Windows Phone 7, > - WPF, > - ASP.NET, > - "whatever else will be hot that time" ... > > user interface? > > IMO/in my experience developing WinForms apps with MS SQL 2008 FE is > several > times/a matter of magnitude RAD-der than developing MS Access apps - and I > mean solid professional application development not "power-users toys". And > stability/flexibility/"multi-threadability"/scalability/... of 3/n-tiered > .NET applications is practically unlimited... > > And you can develop 32-bit (WinForms) .NET apps and run them on 64 bit > systems with MS Access or MS SQL backend - just use corflags.exe > (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164699(v=vs.80).aspx) > > Thank you. > > -- > Shamil >