Re:Kozo – Stop writing boilerplate and start building products
by vertex-four on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @08:24PM
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Visual Studio Lightswitch is a thing, included in Visual Studio 2012 Professional onwards. It's essentially a tool for building a database (or interfacing to an external one) and putting a CRUD UI on top of it, while it allows for extending it with real code nearly everywhere. It also integrates into other enterprise-y stuff, supposedly.
The issue is... you're stuck with Lightswitch once you start using it. There's not an "export to standalone C# project" button, I believe; you'll always be dependent on the Lightswitch libraries, which Microsoft will probably decide to drop or radically change in the future, at least before .Net itself is dropped.
And that's going to be sort of the problem with all these systems. Unless it can output pure, maintainable C# code (or whatever else), not dependent on significant libraries specific to the RAD toolkit, there's a very high risk that the toolkit and libraries become unsupported well before the application stops being used.
The issue is... you're stuck with Lightswitch once you start using it. There's not an "export to standalone C# project" button, I believe; you'll always be dependent on the Lightswitch libraries, which Microsoft will probably decide to drop or radically change in the future, at least before .Net itself is dropped.
And that's going to be sort of the problem with all these systems. Unless it can output pure, maintainable C# code (or whatever else), not dependent on significant libraries specific to the RAD toolkit, there's a very high risk that the toolkit and libraries become unsupported well before the application stops being used.