LightSwitch: Can We Handle The Truth? - by @ADefWebServer

In a Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson’s character admonishes the public for not being able to handle the hard choices the military makes to protect the nation. As I dig deep into LightSwitch, as I prepare for my upcoming presentation, I have begun to feel as if LightSwitch is the packaging around the solution to a problem that is much bigger than many of us realize.

The truth that I think a lot of us may not be able to handle is, we don’t realize how bad our current situation really is. The truth may be that we programmers spend an incredible amount of time (and usually somebody's money) creating applications that are not as good as business applications will be in the near future.




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Post Contributed by: Kunal Chowdhury

Sunday, February 06, 2011


Kunal is the Site Admin and Contributor of Silverlight-Zone. He is a Software Engineer, Microsoft Silverlight MVP, Code Project Mentor and a Code Project MVP. He is also an active Author in SilverlightShow.net and a speaker in various community events. He works on Microsoft Platform and very passionate about Silverlight technology. He started his career in 2007 and achieved various awards during his professional life.

He shares his findings in his personal blog: http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com and he also tweets at: @kunal2383.

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