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Microsoft is creating the first beta of its LightSwitch improvement device available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers today, according to an August 19 Microsoft blog post.Microsoft strategies to make the LightSwitch beta on the market towards the public on Monday, August 23, officials said previously this month.Microsoft is positioning LightSwitch, codenamed “KittyHawk,” as a way to build business applications for the desktop,Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus, the Web and the cloud. It’s a instrument that relies on pre-built templates to make building applications easier for non-professional programmers. Microsoft officials have stated LightSwitch is designed to bring the Fox/Access style of programming to .Net.The LightSwitch Beta 1 documentation is out there now on MSDN. The introduction to the documents makes it clear that while LightSwitch is meant to simplify improvement,Office Home And Business 2010, it isn;t for non-programmers:“The process of producing an application by using LightSwitch resembles other advancement tools. Connect to data, develop a form and bind the data towards the controls, add some validation depending on business logic,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus Product Key, and then test and deploy. The difference with LightSwitch is that each one of those steps is simplified.”Many professional programmers have made their misgivings about LightSwitch public,Office Standard, claiming that non-professionals could end up producing a bunch of half-baked .Net apps using LightSwitch. Microsoft officials have countered those objections by saying LightSwitch applications can be handed off to professional developers to carry forward if/when needed.LightSwitch allows users to connect their applications to Excel,Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Student Key, SharePoint or Azure services. Applications built with LightSwitch can run anywhere Silverlight can — in a variety of browsers (Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox), on Windows PCs or on Windows Azure. Microsoft is planning to add support for Microsoft Access to LightSwitch possibly by the time Beta 2 rolls around. Support for mobile phones won’t be on the market in version 1 of the product, Microsoft officials have stated.Microsoft officials have said LightSwitch will be a 2011 product.(Note: I;m finding a number of the links on the MSDN blogs aren;t working and are redirecting users to log in. The pointer in the MSDN availability blog publish to which I pointed at the start isn;t working. I have a question in to Microsoft about TechNet and BizSpark availability of the first LightSwitch beta. I;ll update when I hear more.)Update: Only MSDN subscribers are getting the Beta 1 LightSwitch bits this week. TechNet, BizSpark and other users all have to wait until August 23, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed.