Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 RTM is Here – We made it!

As Jason Zander and the LightSwitch Team just announced, we released Visual Studio LightSwitch today, whoohooo! It’s been a long, fun road to our final release and we are so excited to get this into your hands today! I am personally excited about this product and the community that is building around it. Congrats to the LightSwitch team and a special thanks to the entire community for their support! I will continue to do my best helping the community and providing technical learning content so tune into my blog here as well as the newly updated Dev Center, your one-stop-shop for everything LightSwitch:

Visit the LightSwitch Developer Center https://msdn.com/lightswitch

Visual Studio LightSwitch is the newest edition of the Visual Studio family and is the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and the cloud. For the end-user developer this means you can quickly create professional quality business applications with minimal code. For the professional developer you can customize LightSwitch with your own code, controls and even build extensions that can add more capabilities than what you get out of the box. Check out the resources below for more information.

Download

MSDN Subscribers can install LightSwitch from the subscription site. Everyone else can download the trial version here and on Thursday you will be able to purchase LightSwitch. Please see the installation notes on the LightSwitch Team blog and the official readme.

Learning Resources

Check out these learning resources, samples and starter kits to kick start your LightSwitch application development.

Get an Overview of LightSwitch
Watch the instructional LightSwitch "How Do I?" videos
Learn how to build LightSwitch Applications
Download Starter Kits
Download Code Samples

Community Resources

Interact with the LightSwitch Community on our forums, blogs and social sites.

Ask Questions in the Forums Read the official LightSwitch Team Blog

Become a LightSwitch Fan
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Enjoy!

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2011
  Beth--  Congratulations to the LightSwitch team.  It's a fantastic business product.  Thank you to everyone who helped create it.  Been playing with the beta and will purchase the LS 2011 on Monday when it's available.  Also wanted to thank you, Paul Patterson, Robert Green, Sheel Shah, and others who have been putting out training videos and tutorials (especially the ones in VB!).  

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2011
  Thanks for the kind words Micah! You will be able to purchase LightSwitch on Thursday the 28th :-) Have fun!

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2011
  Hi Beth, Meanwhile, I apologize for bad English congratulations from me to all those who have committed to provide a well-done, in my opinion since the beta versions, will be undoubtedly a fantastic product. Thanks again to you and Beth to Microsoft. Carmelo La Monica

• Anonymous
  July 27, 2011
  Thank you for helping me to learn VB

• Anonymous
  August 01, 2011
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• Anonymous
  August 04, 2011
  Hi M - Did you post this in the forums? There are a lot of team members there that can help trouble-shoot. Ususualy we just need to look at your install log. social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads We've been seeing some issues with users that already have VS2010 Pro or higher already installed and have been using other versions of Silverlight & RIA services. It's usually a compatibility mismatch somewhere. So users who install just the LightSwitch edition have no problems because the install is clean. Don't worry we'll get this resolved in the forums.