Sunday, October 23, 2011

Compare LightSwitch to Visual Studio 2010 Professional

Features
Visual Studio LightSwitch Visual Studio Professional
LightSwitch Runtime
1
Visual Studio Project System
IntelliSense
Team Explorer (Team Foundation Server integration)
2
3
LIGHTSWITCH APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
 
 
Predefined Screen Templates
1
Application Skinning and Theming
1
Data Entity Designer
1
Business-oriented Data Types (e.g., Email Address, etc.)
1
Automatic Data Input Validation
1
Windows Azure Deployment
1
SQL Azure Support
LANGUAGES, EDITORS & COMPILERS
 
 
Visual Basic
Visual C#
Visual C++
 
Visual F#
 
HTML/JavaScript
 
Silverlight/XAML Editor
 
PROJECT TYPES
 
 
LightSwitch Application
1
ASP.NET
 
ASP.NET AJAX
 
ASP.NET MVC
 
Console Application
 
Database Projects
 
Office Applications & Add-ins
 
Setup Projects
 
SharePoint Applications & Web Parts
 
Test Projects
 
Visual Studio Add-ins
 
Windows Forms
 
Windows Phone
 
WCF
 
WPF
 
XNA Games
 
1. When installed with Visual Studio LightSwitch, but only available for LightSwitch applications.
2. Team Explorer installed separately, but integrates with LightSwitch.
3. Requires a Team Foundation Server Client Access License (CAL).

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