What replaced Microsoft LightSwitch?

PowerApps
Microsoft’s LightSwitch business-app development tool is on its way out, with PowerApps as its recommended replacement. It’s official as of today: Microsoft is phasing out its LightSwitch business-app development tool.

What happened to Microsoft LightSwitch?

Microsoft last week announced that it is discontinuing LightSwitch development. The “development” tool aimed at line-of-business types will be no more, and at the same time the company is introducing an alternative option, dubbed PowerApps. LightSwitch debuted back in August 2010 at a VSLive!

Is Powerapps no code?

Power Apps is an example of low-code tool that lets non-coders to build business apps. The Power Apps is a service to help companies create custom applications with little or no resources to the code. The low-code platform hosted on Azure is offered to create apps for mobile, desktop and web.

Is Microsoft PowerApps free?

Both Power Apps Plan Trial and Power Apps Developer Plan are free, but are created for different purposes: Power Apps Plan Trial gives you the Power Apps per user plan for 30 days. This duration is meant for trying out production Power Apps applications. Once your trial expires, you can purchase a plan.

What is PowerApps good for?

Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your data stored either in the underlying data platform (Microsoft Dataverse) or in various online and on-premises data sources (such as SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on).

Is PowerApps any good?

Power Apps is a great tool when you’re after the creation of business apps. It’s quick and easy to design and develop. Power Apps allows you to connect to multiple data source such as excel, sharepoint, cds, etc. It also has many different connectors that you can include during development.

Can I use PowerApps for personal use?

The PowerApps Community plan gives you a free development environment for individual use. With your individual environment, you can: Learn to build business apps and workflows with the full functionality of PowerApps and Microsoft Flow.

How many types of PowerApps are there?

Since there are actually two different types of apps that can be created with the Power Apps platform: Canvas apps and Model-driven apps.

When should you not use PowerApps?

Limitations of Power Apps

1. Licensing is constrained under the Microsoft 365 umbrella.
2. A complicated licensing model.
3. Cost.
4. Low-code services.
5. Power Apps integrated development environment.
6. Limited support for multiple device sizes and screen orientations.
7. Item limit.
8. Throughput limits of the connector ecosystem.

Is PowerApps hard to learn?

PowerApps is, fundamentally, a development platform for mobile and web apps. What’s more, PowerApps is generally quite easy to learn.

Is Microsoft Power Apps free?

What kind of applications can I use with LightSwitch?

Desktop applications can leverage local hardware resources and work with applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel. Both desktop and browser-based LightSwitch applications can be hosted on IIS and Azure. The primary audience for LightSwitch is end-user developers such as Dalia.

What kind of framework is LightSwitch based on?

LightSwitch applications are based on Silverlight and a solid .NET application framework using well-known patterns and best practices, like n -tier application layering and Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM), as well as technologies like the Entity Framework and WCF RIA Services (see Figure 1 ).

What do you need to know about LightSwitch in Visual Studio?

LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers of all skill levels who want to quickly create data-centric business applications for the desktop, Web and cloud. LightSwitch simplifies the development process because it does most of the development work for you.

Why is LightSwitch good for Small Business Development?

LightSwitch is an extensible development environment that simplifies the development process because it lets you concentrate on the business logic while it takes care of a lot of the remaining work. LightSwitch is perfect for small business or departmental productivity applications that need to be done fast.