title: Does Microsoft LightSwitch require Silverlight on the client?
body: <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch" rel="nofollow">Microsoft Lightswitch</a> is a Rapid Application Development environment currently in beta 2.  It will be part of the Visual Studio family.  There seem to be several different ways to deploy LightSwitch applications.  I would like a web only application that clients would access on tablets, and by tablets I mean the iPad.  If LightSwitch requires Silverlight that would rule out LightSwitch.</p>