Bill
Yes, I thought the posts were worth reading. Attaching the EF Profiler was
the first that I saw, and is super-simple. 
All of Ayende's (blogged) testing was done in the month of August, 2010 - I
searched carefully for something near the RTM time, but no. Perhaps in
future. 
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Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:49 AM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Lightswitch - really clever - really slow

Hi Ian,

There's some good posts there such as attaching the entity framework
profiler, but it's also worth remembering those posts were based on Beta 1
or there-abouts.


|-----Original Message-----
|From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
|[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas
|Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 7:34 PM
|To: 'ozDotNet'
|Subject: RE: Lightswitch - really clever - really slow
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|Predictably sceptical, Ayende Rahien reviewed LightSwitch in August 2010
(11-12
|months ago; and he hasn't returned to it since then) and the several blog
posts
|are worth reading, even now.
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|http://ayende.com/blog/search?q=lightswitch
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|I say predictably, but this view is probably simpatico with most ppl on
this list.
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|________________________________
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|Ian Thomas
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|Victoria Park, Western Australia
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|-----Original Message-----
|From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
|[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed
|Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:31 PM
|To: 'ozDotNet'
|Subject: RE: Lightswitch - really clever - really slow
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|Hi Bill
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|The under 30 secs in VB6 is using the same data.
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|Googling "Lightswitch slow" shows I aren't the only person experiencing
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|speed issues.
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|I wasn't plannining to use Lightswitch for migration. Rather for new
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|solutions that need quick CRUD forms.... I am hoping to hear more news from
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|people with better experience of the speed.
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|Cheers
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|Kirsten
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|-----Original Message-----
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|From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
|[email protected]]
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|On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy
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|Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 11:01 AM
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|To: 'ozDotNet'
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|Subject: RE: Lightswitch - really clever - really slow
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|Hi Kirsten,
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|That does seem slow.  Have you done other metrics to compare such as a
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|windows.forms app using the same data, and a Silverlight app using the same
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|data ?
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|As to advice: it's hard to say in your particular case. If you have an
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|existing VB6 application, the first questions that need to be answered is
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|what do you want to do with it, what are the goals of the migration?
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|The "83 fields" part does make me wonder if this could be presented to the
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|user better. Are you using tabs, logical groupings of fields? If so, each
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|group in a tab should be able to load async / lazily.
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|I wouldn't say that Lightswitch is only for web apps; rather I'd say its
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|primary target is distributed apps. For standalone single user applications
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|the architecture it uses is probably overkill, although there are benefits
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|even in those cases to move the data to the cloud. For apps with the data
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|stored in the cloud (such as Azure), I think Lightswitch presents a really
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|low cost way of getting good quality data screens and letting the customers
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|modify what they want
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||[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed
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||Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 8:08 AM
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||To: 'ozDotNet'
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||Subject: RE: Lightswitch - really clever - really slow
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||Hi Bill
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||The test app I created, released on my local computer, takes 5 seconds
load
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|the
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||data entry form.
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||Then 3 seconds to return to the list when I click the cancel button There
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|are 83
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||fields on the form.
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||This compares to less than half a second for my old VB6 application
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||I am running Windows XP SP3
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||AMD Phenom(tm) IIX3 720 Processor 3.01GHZ, 3.25GB Ram Pyhsical Address
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||Extension
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||I also found the development experience frustrating because of the speed
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||Any advice? Should I only be considering it for web apps?
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||Thanks
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||Kirsten
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||From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
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||[email protected]]
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||On Behalf Of Bill McCarthy
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||Sent: Monday, 1 August 2011 10:11 AM
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||To: 'ozDotNet'
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||Subject: RE: Lightswitch - really clever - really slow
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||Hi Kristen,
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||When I was testing the beta bits, I defiantly thought it was slow to
start,
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|but with
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||the final it seems fine to me. That might just be due to different
hardware
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|configs
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||though as I keep Beta's to VM's, where-as the RTM bits I've installed on
my
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|new-
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||ish Dell XPS 17 which has pretty high windows experience index ratings.
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||Given that it does a full client server delivery even when running
locally,
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|then I
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||think the perf isn't that bad given it's spinning up the WCF server layer,
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|entity
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||framework layer and firing up WPF/Silverlight.
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|||[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirsten Greed
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|||Subject: Lightswitch - really clever - really slow
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