Microsoft is preparing to launch a version of its Visual Studio included developer environment that it assures will be simple sufficient for still business managers to utilize.

On Aug. the corporation will launch a beta version of Visual Studio, named Visual Studio LightSwitch, intended at make simpler process of developing applications. "Professional developers are no longer only people generating business applications," said Dave Mendlen, Microsoft senior executive of developer tools platform marketing.

Frequently, it is a business manager who will observe a requiring for an office application and try to arrange one together using tools for example spreadsheets or word processing macros. "LightSwitch gives business end users an easy way to make their own applications," he said.

The software will be an exposed-down version of Visual Studio bunch with a set of templates that contains a number of dissimilar enterprise processes, which a user can organize to set up an application.