Visual Studio LightSwitch: A Rapid Development Tool for Non-Programmers
Visual Studio LightSwitch: A Rapid Development Tool for Non-Programmers
Posted 08/03/2010 at 9:18pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Microsoft has announced a drag-and-drop, visual programming tool called Visual Studio LightSwitch. A stand alone product to begin with, the latest member of the Visual Studio family will eventually be available in future versions of Visual Studio. The tool is meant to enable business users to rapidly develop and deploy business applications regardless of the development skills or programming know-how at their disposal.
If you are not conversant with Visual Basic or C#, you can simply trust your ability to dabble with pre-built templates and tools to yield scalable business applications. According to Dave Mendlen, senior director of developer marketing at Microsoft, LightSwitch users are free to “use as much or as little code as they want.” As the applications are all Silverlight based, they can run on the end-user's desktop, inside a browser, or in the cloud with ample ease. MS plans to release a beta on August 23, with the final version expected sometime next year.
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JohnP
August 04, 2010 at 1:36pm
Visual basic, Web page builders, 3d CAD programs, hell, even game level design, are a bear to learn and use. "Easy" is not a word I would bandy about for these apps.
RISCi_ATOM
August 04, 2010 at 4:13am
If you can not write code in a real programming language (asm, C/C++ or even C#), then you do not have any business creating applications in the first place. These "Drag-n-Drop" solutions not only make for lazy programmers, but they take the developer one level away from having any control over what the application does. You can add extension languages to these types of tools, but it still does not give you control over the final application and what it does. If you want to develop applications, then take the time to learn a programming language (even if it is a scripting language).
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