On 08/19/2010 06:10 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 08/19/2010 03:21 PM, Leland Jackson wrote: >> On 08/19/2010 03:59 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 08/19/2010 12:31 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch >>>> >>>> "Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool aimed at building data-driven >>>> applications, like an inventory system or a basic customer relationship >>>> management system incredibly easy. >>>> >>>> LightSwitch automatically generates the user interface in Silverlight >>>> for a data source and, with no code, you can create, read, update and >>>> delete data. >>>> >>>> Watch the demos and see how you can build, customize, and extend >>>> LightSwitch applications including changing themes, templates, adding >>>> custom validation, providing smart data types, and deploying to Windows >>>> Azure. " >>>> >>>> Watching the video I was thinking "hey it's the VFP application wizard!" >>>> >>>> >>> I use Firefox on Ubuntu and I installed the Moonlight plug in. Would >>> not run the demo. >>> >>> Oh well. >>> >>> >> You could install a VM like Virtualbox in Ubuntu and run window XP, etc >> as a guest of the VM. Then you could watch the video using IE in the VM >> being hosted by Ubuntu. >> >> I didn't see anything in Light Switch that couldn't be easily done in >> something like PgAdmin III. There are many application frameworks built >> around IBM's DB2, Oracle's DB, and many other enterprise class database >> servers including PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL allow parts of the application >> to be embedded in the database itself using languages like PL/Tcl, >> PL/perl, PL/python, PL/php, and of course PL/pgSQL. >> >> However, things start getting expensive when you get into enterprise >> databases like MsSQL, DB2, Oracle, etc. >> >> http://download.oracle.com/otn_hosted_doc/jdeveloper/11gdemos/adfoverview/adfoverview.htm >> http://www.sco.com/company/legal/update/sg245850.pdf >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> >> >> > Leland: I have an XP desktop on my Ubuntu machine so I can watch the > video using IE. I was just wondering how effective a web tool is that > won't run on all platforms. The Moonlight plug in appears to be > developed by Novell. > > Like I said, "Oh well." >
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