This simple group layout extension consists of two controls: ImageLayout & BrushLayout; helps users to set its background.
Introduction
This walkthrough will demonstrate how to create A very simple Button Control extension that consists of two controls; helps users to attach PNG image to their buttons. ImageButton – this control will allow you attach just an image to the button. ExtendedImageButton – will also show “Display Name” text and wraps.
Difficulty : Beginner
Summery: This is a stripped version of JaimeH’s MSDN’s code sample. All credit goes to him. 
I’m following Slideshow presentation idea from my previous post and matched the bullet points with it. Hope this article may help someone.
Problem: How do you create a self/circular reference table and not to show the current record on its ‘drop down’ control? For example, you have a Category Table with a ParentCategoryId that reference itself (which should allow NULL). Now when you assign a Category for it, you may don’t want to allow the same Category to be assigned to itself.
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This post will show you how to call a 3rd party web service methods from LightSwitch using WCF RIA. For this demo post, I chose WebserviceX.NET’s Zipcode WebService (http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx) and thanks to their service. I have matched the bulleted points with Slideshow.
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Result
I needed a Many-To-Many control that can help our users to relate hundreds of records between two master tables. Out of the box, LightSwitch (Beta 1/2) doesn’t support either Multi-Row Select Data Grid or provided a CheckedListBox.
LS provides one in-built solution for M2M: Auto Complete Box :- But this will take long time to add few hundred related data and requires multiple clicks per record. Also LS Team and community give two workarounds:
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