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Modernize Apps Look & Feel with Metro Studio and the Cosmopolitan Shell

One of the design goals forLightSwitch in Visual Studio 11was to modernize the look and feel of the UI. Back in March the team released the beta of theLightSwitch Cosmopolitan Shell and Theme. This theme and shell provides a bunch of improvements over the default...

Simple Class Creator

A very simple class code generation tool. Input a simple select statement and generate code for the schema of the returned virtual table.

VB.NET wrappers for much of the Windows API

Includes most API functions except for graphical ones.

Visual Studio Resources usage

How to use Resources in Visual Studio.

WPF Conditional command

A view side ICommand that conditionally executes a view-model side ICommand

WMI Code Creator For Windows Forms For VB.NET

This is\xa0a project for creating code like the WMI Code creator but the output is for VB.NET and Windows Forms instead of for a Console Application.

I’m Speaking Next Week on What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11

I'll be speaking next week at the East Bay.NET User Group in Berkeley as well as delivering a MSDN webcast on What's New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11. I hope you can either make it in person or join in online to see and discuss the exciting...

Alternative ways to instantiate objects

Introduction for beginners on how to dynamically instantiate external types