Few days ago Jason Zander Microsoft Corporate Vice President has been held a keynote about the new tool for rapid application development called Visual Studio LightSwitch. It is like standard Visual Studio extension with a lot of capability in creating tables, data forms etc. The main propose of this tool is deleveloping business application which can be connected to local database or cloud service and SQL Azure. Every table with data can be searched by any column at the same time, as well as exported in to Excel. The first Beta version will be released on 23. August.  Can’t wait to see the tool. More information about LightSwitch can be seen on official site at
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch
. The link also contains Jason Zender keynote about LightSwitch.