Office Live solution platform and developer resources launched
The wait is finally over. The new Office Live version, launched yesterday, is the first release that we are encouraging developers to use as a solution platform. You can create your own custom business applications or workspaces or start from one of our existing applications and extend them for your customers’ requirements.
There are lots of powerful new tools that you can use when building your apps, including:
· Galleries full of application templates
· Data Sharing to link your public-facing web site to your workspaces & business applications
· New webparts such as the list roll-up web part to aggregate data of similar type from across your applications
· Powerful integration with Office 2007 & 2003
· Workflow rules (requires SharePoint Designer 2007)
· Use of the Windows SharePoint Services v3 Web Services
To help you, we have several new resources available:
· Office Live Developer Guide – we’ve updated the preview version and now made it available in the MSDN Library. It is full of interesting how-to articles, schemas and information on what is and is not supported from the underlying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 platform. Highly recommended!!!
· Developer Forums – to accompany the platform, we’ve created a new forum/newsgroup on MSDN where discussions can be started on technical topics, problems, and suggestions.
· Developer Video Testimonials – hear a little bit from some of our pilot partners who we can’t thank enough for helping us test the concept (and test the code!) of Office Live.
· Updated Developer Center – tying everything together is the Office Live Developer Center. This has links to our developer resources as well as other technologies that we think might help you get started on Office Live.
I’ve been talking up the platform here on this blog since last spring, and we can’t wait to see what you do with it. Please remember to use our developer forums to send us your feedback.
