Office Accounting Developer Portal

Welcome to the Microsoft Office Accounting developers' home on MSDN. Learn how you can easily build customized solutions for small businesses by leveraging the power of the Office Accounting platform.

	Migrating Small Business Accounting 2006 Add-ins to Later Versions of Office Accounting Find out what steps you need to perform to get your SBA 2006 Add-ins working with Office Accounting 2007 and beyond.
	Creating Office Accounting Reports with Totals Learn more advanced methods for creating your own reports by seeing how to add totals to your custom reports.

Blogs and Newsgroups

Microsoft Small Business Applications Blog
Rajat Taneja, General Manager, Small Business Applications and Service
Discussions in Office Accounting Development
Talk to your peers about Office Accounting.

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Reference

Add Custom Filters to Your Custom Office Accounting Reports
Learn how to define and add your own filters for a custom reporting solution built on the Office Accounting platform.
Integrating Office Accounting with Microsoft Office
See how Office Accounting can be used in combination with the Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel.
Prompting the User to Save a Form via an Add-in
Learn how to correctly handle form close events in your add-in so that you can ask the user whether they want to save the form on close.
Minimum System Requirements for Office Accounting Express
Find out what the minimum system requirements are for Office Accounting.
Install and Configure Office Accounting on Windows Small Business Server 2003
Understand the process for configuring multiple users for Office Accounting running on a Windows Small Business Server 2003 network.
Office Accounting 2008 SDK
Find documentation and samples to write, build, and deploy Office Accounting 2008 integrated applications.

Community

Getting Started with Office Accounting

To get started with building your solutions on Microsoft Office Accounting, you'll need the Microsoft Office Accounting Software Development Kit (SDK) and a copy of Office Accounting. Our SDK makes it possible to build applications that interoperate with Office Accounting, and also enables you to develop solutions that provide customers with the familiar Microsoft Office System user experience.

Office Accounting Professional 2008 Trial (US Version)
Download a trial copy of the US version of our product today.
Office Accounting Professional 2008 Trial (UK Version)
Download a trial copy of the UK version of our product today.
Office Accounting 2008 SDK
Get everything developers need to write, build, and deploy Office Accounting integrated applications.

Learn

Office Accounting 2007 Developer Webcast
Missed our Office Accounting 2007 ISV Webcast Presentation? See the presentation here.
Office Accounting Webcasts
Enhance your skill set with expert tips.
The .NET Show: Small Business Accounting Platform
Learn how ISVs can develop cost-effective applications for small businesses.

Downloads

Office Accounting 2007 SP1
Get the latest updates to Office Accounting 2007.
Service Pack 3 for Business Contact Manager Update and Small Business Accounting
Get the latest updates to Small Business Accounting 2006.

Support

Self-Help Resources
Find troubleshooting steps, solutions to common issues, and KB and how-to articles here.