Visual Studio Extensions by definition extend the functionality available within Visual Studio. Lightning Adapters achieve this by providing all the additional information within the software to allow it to be installed and used natively within Visual Studio and be downloaded from the Visual Studio Gallery
Lightning Adapters are designed for Lightswitch. They are built using additional metadata describing the entities and operations to ensure that Lightswitch can generate it User Interface as accurately as possible. This greatly reduces the effort required by the developer to manually update fields and rules in Visual Studio.
The lightning adapter uses the target systems published API which ensures the correct business transactions are being applied to the environment.
CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update and Delete. These are the operations available with the specified entites in the target system.
These are the physical 'key' relationships between entities which operate like Foreign Keys in relational databases. These relationships ensure that additional functionality is possible in Visual Studio such as navigation and picklists. Visual Studio uses these to identify linked data entities and suggest companion entities for multi-entity screens.
This functionality describes which entity fields are available for certain operations (Create, Update, Delete). This ensure where data should not be manipulated by the user, the generated lighswitch views are aware and do not allow this.
This information provided by our adapter lets Lightswitch define which Entity attribute to use as a default when summarizing the entity data.
Picklist (also knows as Lookups) provide lists of possible values for fields. In Lightswitch this ensures that the correct lists are pre-populated into the screen designs.
Rules include Choice Lists, Valid Ranges of data and Mandatory fields.
Lightning Cache improves on the API speed by taking a local copy of the system data and using it for reads. This data is refreshed when necessary to update its content.
Windows Identity Foundation helps .NET developers build claims-aware applications that externalize user authentication from the application, improving developer productivity, enhancing application security, and enabling interoperability. Developers can enjoy greater productivity, using a single simplified identity model based on claims. They can create more secure applications with a single user access model, reducing custom implementations and enabling end users to securely access applications via on-premises software as well as cloud services. Finally, they can enjoy greater flexibility in application development through built-in interoperability that allows users, applications, systems and other resources to communicate via claims.
The adapter utilises the Web Service APIs which in turn support authenticating using OAuth 2.0. OAuth is an open protocol that allows a website to access resources of another website without having to expose a user's credentials. Instead of supplying a username and password, OAuth allows users to hand out security tokens to specific sites for access to specific resources for a defined duration.
The Trial version of the LightSwitch AIDE extension can be downloaded directly in Microsoft Visual Studio or from the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery.
To activate the full version a license must be purchased and entered into the extension. Please read the License Terms carefully.
AIDE is in private beta and will be released shortly!
This data extension supports Office 365 Web Services API. Use this extension to email using your Office365 Exchange settings.
This data extension supports Exchange Server from version 2007 up to the latest version. It uses the Web services API which must be installed on the Exchange Server.
Implement Auto-Discover of your most available Office365 Exchange URL for your region by simply setting a property of the Exchange Configuration entity and saving the data. The Exchange Web services URL is returned and updates your runtime settings.
Support for both text and html body of the email. Simply set a checkbox on the Email entity. Its easy to define a standard body and attach to a set of emails using a few lines of code.
Add attachment data from your local store and upload to use as part of your email. (Sample code provided for upload and attach).
Add CC and BCC recipients as standard. Create a mailshot using a string of BCC recipients.
Adds the ability to dynamically change the sending email user and password at runtime to override the default configuration. (Limited to a pre-specified email Domain per License)
Allows a trusted connection to be specified in the Configuration and automatically detect the current users credentials on the domain. (Requires Active Directory and On-Premise Exchange)
Allows an exchange user to be specified to send on behalf of the default username, which is useful for support and shared inboxes.
This data extension uses standard Visual Studio Connection string data which can be deployed to local client, IIS Web Server and Windows Azure.
Supports standard LightSwitch Deployment Architecture to Windows Azure.
Supports standard LightSwitch Deployment Architecture to Sharepoint Online and Sharepoint 2013.
Supports standard LightSwitch Clients (Silverlight and HTML5).
Lightning Data Extensions
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Visual Studio Extensions by definition extend the functionality available within Visual Studio. Lightning Adapters achieve this by providing all the additional information within the software to allow it to be installed and used natively within Visual Studio and be downloaded from the Visual Studio Gallery
Lightning Adapters are designed for Lightswitch. They are built using additional metadata describing the entities and operations to ensure that Lightswitch can generate it User Interface as accurately as possible. This greatly reduces the effort required by the developer to manually update fields and rules in Visual Studio.
The lightning adapter uses the target systems published API which ensures the correct business transactions are being applied to the environment.
CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update and Delete. These are the operations available with the specified entites in the target system.
These are the physical 'key' relationships between entities which operate like Foreign Keys in relational databases. These relationships ensure that additional functionality is possible in Visual Studio such as navigation and picklists. Visual Studio uses these to identify linked data entities and suggest companion entities for multi-entity screens.
This functionality describes which entity fields are available for certain operations (Create, Update, Delete). This ensure where data should not be manipulated by the user, the generated lighswitch views are aware and do not allow this.
This information provided by our adapter lets Lightswitch define which Entity attribute to use as a default when summarizing the entity data.
Picklist (also knows as Lookups) provide lists of possible values for fields. In Lightswitch this ensures that the correct lists are pre-populated into the screen designs.
Rules include Choice Lists, Valid Ranges of data and Mandatory fields.
Lightning Cache improves on the API speed by taking a local copy of the system data and using it for reads. This data is refreshed when necessary to update its content.
Windows Identity Foundation helps .NET developers build claims-aware applications that externalize user authentication from the application, improving developer productivity, enhancing application security, and enabling interoperability. Developers can enjoy greater productivity, using a single simplified identity model based on claims. They can create more secure applications with a single user access model, reducing custom implementations and enabling end users to securely access applications via on-premises software as well as cloud services. Finally, they can enjoy greater flexibility in application development through built-in interoperability that allows users, applications, systems and other resources to communicate via claims.
The adapter utilises the Web Service APIs which in turn support authenticating using OAuth 2.0. OAuth is an open protocol that allows a website to access resources of another website without having to expose a user's credentials. Instead of supplying a username and password, OAuth allows users to hand out security tokens to specific sites for access to specific resources for a defined duration.
The Trial version of the LightSwitch AIDE extension can be downloaded directly in Microsoft Visual Studio or from the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery.
To activate the full version a license must be purchased and entered into the extension. Please read the License Terms carefully.
AIDE is in private beta and will be released shortly!
This data extension supports Office 365 Web Services API. Use this extension to email using your Office365 Exchange settings.
This data extension supports Exchange Server from version 2007 up to the latest version. It uses the Web services API which must be installed on the Exchange Server.
Implement Auto-Discover of your most available Office365 Exchange URL for your region by simply setting a property of the Exchange Configuration entity and saving the data. The Exchange Web services URL is returned and updates your runtime settings.
Support for both text and html body of the email. Simply set a checkbox on the Email entity. Its easy to define a standard body and attach to a set of emails using a few lines of code.
Add attachment data from your local store and upload to use as part of your email. (Sample code provided for upload and attach).
Add CC and BCC recipients as standard. Create a mailshot using a string of BCC recipients.
Adds the ability to dynamically change the sending email user and password at runtime to override the default configuration. (Limited to a pre-specified email Domain per License)
Allows a trusted connection to be specified in the Configuration and automatically detect the current users credentials on the domain. (Requires Active Directory and On-Premise Exchange)
Allows an exchange user to be specified to send on behalf of the default username, which is useful for support and shared inboxes.
This data extension uses standard Visual Studio Connection string data which can be deployed to local client, IIS Web Server and Windows Azure.
Supports standard LightSwitch Deployment Architecture to Windows Azure.
Supports standard LightSwitch Deployment Architecture to Sharepoint Online and Sharepoint 2013.
Supports standard LightSwitch Clients (Silverlight and HTML5).
Salesforce CRM Simplified.
Add Salesforce CRM data to your project in minutes.
The Lightning Series Adapter for Salesforce data, for Visual Studio Lightswitch allows an easy and rapid connection from Visual Studio to Salesforce CRM for up to 20 of the key entities.
The Adapter supports read and update capability and may also be used as an OData Data source in Microsoft Visual Studio.
Getting Started
Our Lightswitch Data Extension for Salesforce CRM takes the complexity out of adding Salesforce CRM to your LightSwitch Applications.
Suitable for both the Beginner through to the Advanced Developer, add Salesforce CRM content to your solutions with a minimum of effort.
Simply install the Community extension, add your configuration string,
and create a LightSwitch screen using one of the CRM entities.
