If I want to use LightSwitch's prebuilt silverlight forms is there a way for me to do it within VS2010 (i have ultimate)? It is slightly annoying to have to load a slimmed down VS just to have some templates in place. I'm downloading LightSwitch now to see if I can copy the prebuilt forms into a VS2010 silverlight app.
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The information I have is that it will be a stand-alone VS SKU, but it will definitely be available for VS Professional and above. The real trick with using LightSwitch Silverlight forms is to figure out how to use LightSwitch in conjunction with other projects, services, and assemblies. It is not possible to use LightSwitch as a generator for Silverlight forms for use in other applications: the XAML within LightSwitch is generated on the fly from meta data.
Paul Keister
2010-10-28 05:47:33
With my VS Ultimate there is no LightSwitch VS instance, only the templates have been added to my project types.
ryan
2010-10-28 18:45:03
Right. The LightSwitch project template creates a LightSwitch project. Presumably the LightSwitch Edition of Visual Studio will only be able to create LightSwitch projects, but as you note this hasn't been finalized.
Paul Keister
2010-10-28 19:50:12