Jay Schmelzer and Chris Finlan Build HTML 5 Apps with Lightswitch
Carl and Richard talk to Jay Schmelzer and Chris Finlan about LightSwitch. Jay is one of the leaders of LightSwitch at Microsoft and talks about some of the new features coming in LightSwitch including HTML 5 clients. Chris works for SAP and builds line-of-business applications there, including building in LightSwitch.
Guests:
Jay Schmelzer
Jay Schmelzer is a Director of Program Management on the Visual Studio Team at Microsoft. Jay and his team are responsible for the Visual Studio tools, programming languages, frameworks and runtime components used to build line of business and cloud applications. That includes the CLR and .NET Framework, Microsoft's managed languages (VB.NET, C# and F#), Visual Studio support for building Microsoft Office 365 and Windows Azure solutions.
Chris Finlan
Christopher Finlan is a Senior Business Intelligence Specialist in the Global Software, Technology & OEM Partners Group at SAP and is considered a “go-to” resource when it comes to designing and implementing innovative, customized line of business and reporting applications that far exceed end user expectations. He has over 13 years of industry experience with a strong background in both the SAP and Microsoft technology space. When he’s not tinkering with a new Lightswitch application or walking users through how to use SAP’s Business Objects BI tools inside of Sharepoint, you can usually find him outside Philadelphia with his wife Bridget and two children, Caitlin and Matthew.
Links:
- Microsoft LightSwitch site http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch
- LightSwitch HTML Client Preview http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch/htmlclient.aspx