Microsoft LightSwitch: back to RAD?

After an announcement about availability of the beta 2 of Microsoft LightSwitch Addon for Visual Studio, I decided to take a closer look at this new approach.

Microsoft goes for RAD? But yes, why not. The MS guys are obviously try to follow the trend, that software developing is with years becoming less about just writing code. After watching a 1,5 minutes video about LightSwtich on YouTube, where a ready application evolves: small, with database behind, data binding, table relations and simple, but cute UI, I was very intrigued.

I found 2 things also very interesting: the 1st, is that deployment model can be selected on compiling: desktop or web, the 2nd is that a clicked together application can be extended with C# code.

I think I'll give it a chance and try to find out, in which business scenarios this approach might be appropriate in terms of time-to-market, flexibility and maintainability of such applications.

The video, where the application is being clicked together within 1,5 min can be watched here: