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<body> <h1>Trip Report–Techdays 2012 Netherlands</h1> <p>Last week I had the pleasure of speaking again at <a href="http://techdays.nl/" target="_blank">Techdays Netherlands</a> on <a href="http://msdn.com/lightswitch" target="_blank">Visual Studio LightSwitch</a>. It’s my third time speaking there and the venue is top-notch at the World Forum in The Hague. </p> <p><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2012-the-Netherlands" target="_blank">Check out all the session recordings for Techdays 2012 on Channel 9</a>.</p> <h3>Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch</h3> <p>My first session was in a big room that had about 100 people, almost all of them professional developers (they get paid to write code everyday). In this session we build my version of the <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Visual-Studio-LightSwitch-c8e92df4">Vision Clinic application</a> from scratch, end-to-end, including security and deployment. We do write some code but only some simple business rules and calculated fields, and in the end we have a full-blown business application. The goal is to show what LightSwitch can do for you out of the box without having to know any details of the underlying .NET technologies upon which it is built. The recording is available on Channel 9. I suggest downloading the High Quality WMV:</p> <h5><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2012-the-Netherlands/2146" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Discover What is LightSwitch?" align="left" src="http://i.msdn.microsoft.com/ee402630.Video_sm(en-us,MSDN.10).png" /></a> <strong><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2012-the-Netherlands/2146" target="_blank">Video Presentation: Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch</a></strong></h5> <p>When I asked who had <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch/try" target="_blank">downloaded LightSwitch</a> already, about 75% raised their hand. I also asked how many people were not professional developers (didn’t get paid to write code) and a few people raised their hand. This is pretty much what I expected since this was a pro developer conference. What I showed in the session is pretty close to what I included in the <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9741442">LightSwitch Training Kit</a>. If you look under the “LightSwitch Overview” on the right-hand sidebar on the opening page of the training kit, you will see the complete demo code and demo script that you can use for training folks at your local user groups. :-) </p> <p>I also brought some LightSwitch Reviewer’s Guides that marketing created to help convince business decision makers of the value of using LightSwitch. I ran out of them within seconds. I was able to snag the PDF version that you can download here: </p> <p><a href="https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=478C1BCF29534CD8&id=478C1BCF29534CD8%21200" target="_blank">Visual Studio LightSwitch Reviewer’s Guide</a></p> <p>Here are some more resources to check out that will help introduce you to Visual Studio LightSwitch: </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://msdn.com/lightswitch">LightSwitch Developer Center</a> & <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch/ff938857">Learning Center</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2011/12/01/beginning-lightswitch-getting-started.aspx">Beginning LightSwitch Article Series</a></li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch/ff938857.aspx">LightSwitch How Do I Videos</a></li> <li><a href="http://bit.ly/LightSwitchSamples">LightSwitch Samples</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch">LightSwitch Team Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vslightswitch">LightSwitch Forums</a></li> </ul> <h3>LightSwitch Advanced Development and Customization Techniques</h3> <p>In this session I showed some more advanced development and different levels of customization that you can do to your LightSwitch applications. There were about 75 people </body>