My Development Environment

Even though Microsoft has released Visual Studio 11 beta for download, and it includes a lot of great new features.  I recently, Jan 2012, purchased the standalone version of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 and my hard drive space is limited, so I have to be selective in what I install. For those two reasons most of my postings will be about Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 standalone for now.

My Setup:

I currently use my Mac Book Pro, setup as a dual boot system:

• Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011
• Extensions
• XtraReports for LightSwitch - DevExpress
• LightSwitch Filter Control - Microsoft
• Pixata Custom Controls - Mr Yossu (Alan Silver, Pixata Ltd.)
• ComponentOne OLAP - ComponentOne
• Office Integration Pack - Steve Hanson (Grid Logic)
• LightSwitch Extensions Made Easy - Jan Van der Haegen
• Luminous Controls - Yann Duran
• Themes by Delordson  - LightSwitchExtras.com
• Google Data Provider for LightSwitch - RSSBus

• Windows 7 Professional - 64-bit
• SQL Server Express 2008 R2
• IIS 7 with LightSwitch Extensions