30 June 2011 | News Archive

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Microsoft had several sessions at Tech Ed 2011 about Visual Studio LightSwitch - did you attend the sessions or watch the videos? Have you looked at LightSwitch yet? There have been 2 Beta releases in the last 11 months. If you have not looked at LightSwitch yet - you should! Why? Well because this could be a brand new market for you to reach with new products. Plus LightSwitch may well be used by a different sort of biz app developer - which means you have the opportunity to target new customers with your new software. We highlighted the launch of LightSwitch back in our August 2010 Publisher Newsletter in our: "New technology areas to keep an eye on! LightSwitch - Did you see this new idea from Microsoft?" This was when it was first available as a Beta, then in our March 2011 Newsletter we mentioned that the latest release for LightSwitch was available as a Beta 2 - this was launched by Microsoft on Mar 16th 2011. There are some very good resources and introductory videos on MSDN for Visual Studio LightSwitch - go on - take a look today... LightSwitch Resources on MSDN If you looked at LightSwitch back in 2010 and didn't "get it" or dismissed it because you were too busy with other projects - I would suggest you look again - watch Beth Massi’s Tech Ed 2011 session on Extending LightSwitch on Channel 9 at MSDN and you will see some major changes and improvements between the launch Beta and Beta 2. More importantly Beth's session starts to reveal some of the hidden potential for LightSwitch to help a new class of biz app developer build business solutions fast for the desktop or for the cloud. So is this all hype? Or are there products out there for LightSwitch already? There are several ways to extend LightSwitch and LightSwitch Extensions include: Controls, Screen Templates, Business Types, Themes, Shells & Custom Data Sources. So there are lots of ways for you to build a product that can be sold to a LightSwitch developer and yes there are some early products available now on the market. On June 15th we announced that DevExpress had launched XtraReports for LightSwitch - the first no doubt of many products that will extend LightSwitch to help make users build even better biz apps faster! XtraReports Suite v2011 adds LightSwitch support Go on - take a good look at Visual Studio LightSwitch today - after all what is the July 4th holiday for? Building Business Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Beth Massi's Tech Ed 2011 session on Extending LightSwitch If you have any questions about Visual Studio LightSwitch then please email: harryk@componentsource.com See previous LightSwitch newsletter items: August 2010 Publisher Newsletter March 2011 Publisher Newsletter We will shortly be launching some new solution focused email newsletters to our customers. Yep - we thought it was time to start showing our customers all the cool apps that your products can help them build fast. Plus it is always good to do something new - so watch this space - you may see some new style emails from us and be asked to participate with your product in a mini app show case. This will be a great new opportunity for you to show case your products and show other customers potential uses they had never even thought of! If you have any questions about this please email: harryk@componentsource.com Did you know that we can run and maintain your eShop for you? Yes - not only do we run the multi-lingual customer service for you, we also maintain the back end of your Web Store too. Our team will test your product to make sure it installs correctly, upload it to our fault-tolerant FTP server farm, update the pricing, update the revision kits...in general we can give your customers a better service level and take away your eShop maintenance pain! More info: ComponentSource ESD Service Market News A new way to build biz apps for the desktop and the cloud! More info: Microsoft LightSwitch ComponentSource US News Do you plan to attend the Microsoft BUILD Windows Conference in Sep in Anaheim, CA? If you are attending BUILD - make sure you let us know to set up a meeting. Please contact Chris Brooke: chrisb@componentsource.com More info: Microsoft BUILD Windows Conference European, Middle East & Africa News Are you trying to reach developers in French, German, Italian & Spanish? If so - we can help you with email communication and in print - to help your products reach non-English speaking customers in Europe. Please contact Harry Kelly: harryk@componentsource.com More info: Email Advertising More info: Magazine Advertising - Europe Asia/Pac News Our next Korean paper catalog Issue # 12 will be distributed in Oct 2011 - South Korea is our 5th largest market for sales - so you should be advertising there to grow your sales. The deadline date to advertise is in late August, as we create the catalog and print it in September - so you have until Aug 24th to send us your Insertion Order. For more information please email Scott Sata on: scotts@componentsource.co.jp More info: Korean Paper Catalog

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