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. The business applications available in Office Live Small Business 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 provides Office Live Small Business developers with the details they need to be able to create custom business applications. The guide includes how-to articles, schemas, and documentation for the Office Live Small Business Web services.
	Announcing a new partnership with Elance Office Live Small Business and Elance, the premier freelance marketplace on the Web, have partnered to make it easier than ever for Office Live Small Business customers to connect with you.

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.

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.

Contact Manager Web Service Examples

An interactive training tool to help you learn how to use the Contact Manager Web service to access Contact Manager data from your application.

Microsoft Office Live Small Business Developer Portal

Code Samples

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