Microsoft Lightswitch is a Rapid Application Development environment currently in beta 2. It will be part of the Visual Studio family. There seem to be several different ways to deploy LightSwitch applications. I would like a web only application that clients would access on tablets, and by tablets I mean the iPad. If LightSwitch requires Silverlight that would rule out LightSwitch.
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The client layer of a LightSwitch application is a Silverlight application. Thus, you need on Silverlight on the client to run a LightSwitch application.
Currently Silverlight is not available on the iPad and you will not be able to run a LightSwitch application on the iPad. Perhaps in the future the Mono team will make it possible given that Monotouch and Moonlight already exists, but I wouldn't count on it.
Fast forward to 2013 the LightSwitch HTML client is now available as part of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2.
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You can create HTML pages. See: LightSwitch and HTML http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/LSHTMLAPP.aspx
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Very interesting. I certainly hope this becomes a supported option. – Knox Apr 28 '11 at 11:04
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The only "official" client technology for LightSwitch V1 is currently Silverlight.
I'd love to see a WPF "option" along side the ability to generate a Silverlight client, but we'll just have to wait & see.
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You can easly check it by your self... just 'temporary' turn off Silverlight ( http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2009/04/09/130860.aspx ) and then try to launch your web app in Browser with 'disabled' Silverlight, if it works, then Lightspeed dosn't need Silverlight..
PS: do not forget to 'enable' Silverlight later :)
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I could check it myself, if I had Lightswitch installed. But I'm not going to even try it if it doesn't meet the tablet needs. – Knox Apr 26 '11 at 12:09