Visual Studio LightSwitch is a development environment designed to simplify and shorten the development of businesses applications and data services. LightSwitch makes it easy to create data-centric business applications that can consume a variety of data sources and create clients that can run on a variety of devices. With LightSwitch you can: Build HTML5-based apps that run on all modern devices. Consume and aggregate multiple data sources like databases, SharePoint and OData Eliminate plumbing code and focus on what makes your application unique

By using LightSwitch, you can create HTML client screens that are optimized for display on mobile devices. This topic introduces the templates that you can use to create screens that are based on HTML5, the tools that you can use to design screens, and some of the tasks that you can perform to design the best screens for your LightSwitch application.