Training

You’ve got a lot of great opportunities as a member of the Microsoft® Office Live Small Business Designer & Developer Community. The training below will help you make the most of them.

See how you can use Office Live Small Business tools to create and customize your business offering, and then list your services in the Partner Directory.

Module 1: Introducing Microsoft Office Live Small Business
Take a feature tour covering business applications, lists, libraries, Contact Manager, and tools for building a public Web site.

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Module 2: Creating and Using Business Applications
See how to create business applications from scratch and from existing solutions. Learn how to publish list content on a public Web site, and how to collect information and add it to lists. You’ll also learn how to analyze data with Microsoft Office applications.

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Module 3: Customizing the Public Web Site
Learn how to use Site Designer to customize the look and feel of the site you’re creating. See how Page Manager and Page Editor can help you manipulate Web pages. Explore how to add dynamic content using built-in modules, and how to include Silverlight and Popfly mash-ups.

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Module 4: Customizing Business Applications with SharePoint Designer
Learn how to work with lists, data sources, and data views. Explore how to customize business applications and use workflows to automate business processes.

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Module 5: Deploying Solutions and Performing Site Analytics
Learn how to distribute Microsoft Office Live Small Business applications and Web sites, import SharePoint templates, and analyze a site’s effectiveness.

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Module 6: Developing with Office Live Small Business Web Services
See how to authenticate users via a Windows Live ID and learn how to programmatically display and modify list items and contacts in client applications.

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Module 7: Working with Documents on an Office Live Small Business Site
Learn two ways to download documents from an Microsoft Office Live Small Business site and upload modified documents back to the site.

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Module 8: Building “Business Mash-ups” on Office Live Small Business
Explore how to use SharePoint Designer, Silverlight, and AJAX to create business mash-ups.

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Tools, training, and support

Take advantage of these resources, designed to help get you started with your solution development.

Access the Microsoft Office Live Developer Guide
Sign up now using your Windows® Live ID. Don’t have a Windows Live ID? Get one here first.
Participate in the Microsoft Office Live Small Business Developer Forum, where you can chat with other developers, post questions, and discuss technical topics, problems, and suggestions.
Download our free code samples at the MSDN Code Gallery