The last post was pretty short... So, here are some more details regarding "Azure Tables for LightSwitch", which you may download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Gallery here.
Product Description
We have developped this “Azure Tables for LightSwitch” as part as our interest in both Visual studio LightSwitch, and the Windows azure platform.
“Azure Tables for LightSwitch” enables LightSwitch developers to use azure tales data sources, which does not come as an integrated option in the original LightSwitch suite.
Currently we do not intend to sell this product for profit, but use it as part of a software development projects that enables building applications that use both SQL Azure and Azure tables data sources in order to lower application costs, and are using mainly LightSwitch as the back-office system for these projects.
Here are a few more details regarding this product:
The Product:
ATLS – Azure Table for LightSwitch - Managed Azure Tables using LightSwitch
What is it good for?
Now anyone can easily access Azure tables’ right from within LightSwitch!
Azure Tables storage is meant to store large chunks of data. It is much cheaper than using Azure SQL, especially if you have tons of flat data.
LightSwitch enables development of quick and powerful back office systems
Who is it good for?
Any company who is making use of Azure tables for high traffic or for huge piles of data, who wishes to have easy management access to this data.
Ideal for media and advertisement companies who needs large data storage with very high load of transactions, which needs a quick management application.
Features:
1. Connect to existing entity storage
2. Create new Azure Tables with a simple designer
3. Define a partition strategy
4. Define custom keys
5. Auto-generate WCF RIA service to interact with full CRUD support
6. Support searching within huge data piles
7. Supports paging
8. Define tables’ relationships - coming soon!
9. All is defined right within the familiar environment of Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011