Beth Massi

Speaking Sessions

• Building Open Data (OData) Cloud Services and Apps using LightSwitch

  1:15 PM Sunday   Room: 8403

  The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web and has become the new standard for data-based services. Many enterprises use OData as a means to exchange data between systems, partners, as well as provide an easy access into their data stores form a variety of clients on a variety of platforms. In this session, see how LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 has embraced OData making it easy to consume as well as create data services in the LightSwitch middle-tier. Learn how the LightSwitch development environment makes it easy to define business rules and user permissions that always run in these services no matter what client calls them. Then see how LightSwitch makes it easy to deploy these services to the Azure cloud and consume them from other client applications and platforms.

• Building Business Apps for Mobile Devices

  2:45 PM Sunday   Room: 8403

  “Consumerization of IT” is a growing trend whereby employees are bringing their personal devices to the workplace for work-related activities. The appeal of tablet devices for both consumer- and business-oriented scenarios has been a key catalyst for this trend; the growing expectation that enterprise apps should run on “my” device and take advantage of the tablet’s form factor and device capabilities has particularly opened up new challenges for custom business app development. In this demo-heavy presentation, we’ll show how LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 makes it easy for developers of all skill levels to build HTML5/JavaScript business apps that can be deployed to Azure and run on Windows 8, iOS, and Android devices.