Read original post by Michael Washington at LightSwitch Help Website
Creating a Blank LightSwitch Shell was previously covered in Running a LightSwitch Application With A Blank Shell. However, that article was written before the Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 Extensibility Toolkit was released, so it is not in the easier to modify format that this project is in.
In addition, the Blank LightSwitch Shell does not contain Save and Refresh buttons. These buttons are important in that they allow a user to easily save data on any Tab that is opened, or to Refresh the Screen if they want to reset any unsaved changes.