Microsoft Office Live Small Business Developer Portal

Welcome to the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Developer Portal. Office Live Small Business provides a rich environment for developers to create a wide range of online solutions for small businesses including hosted Web sites and collaborative applications. Office Live Small Business business applications are built on the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 platform.

This portal gives you access to articles, videos, documentation, blogs, and other resources to help you, as a developer, take advantage of the tools and features available in the Office Live Small Business environment.


Microsoft Office Live Small Business Developer Guide

The Developer Guide has just been updated. Changes include more details about working with Microsoft Silverlight in Office Live and the Contact Manager Web service, including links to the new Contact Manager Web Service Examples interactive training tool. Also included is more info about custom headers and custom footers.

Announcing the Office Live Small Business Developer Program for Web Designers and Developers

Sign up today for your free Developer Account and begin helping our community of over 500,000 customers!

Screencasts and Videos

Hear What Partners Are Saying

Watch this video to learn how three Office Live Small Business Solution Developers are using Office Live Small Business to better serve their customers and drive incremental revenue.

Office Live Small Business on The .NET Show

The .NET Show hosts Rajesh Jha, Corporate Vice President for Office Live Small Business, and Tara Brown, lead program manager for Office Live Small Business, to talk about how Office Live Small Business can be used by your customers.

Code Samples

All Office Live Small Business code samples are now available in the MSDN Code Gallery.

Contact Map: Mashup with Office Live Small Business and Microsoft Virtual Earth

Map the addresses of all business contacts included in Contact Manager with this sample code mashup.

Time Card: Collect Tasks from Project Manager with Office Live Small Business Web Services

Track and record a single occurrence of time spent on a task and the total time spent on the task over many occurrences with this sample code.

Client Application Connection: Leverage Microsoft Windows Live ID Authentication

Build a client application that uses Windows Live ID Client and the Office Live Small Business Discovery Web service to provide Windows Live ID authentication with this sample code.

Property Value Estimator: Mashup with Office Live Small Business and Zillow

Estimate the value of the property located at the home address of a contact included in the Contact Manager Business Contacts list with this sample code mashup.



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