SharePoint Online Developer Resource Center Now Live

As you’ve not doubt heard by now, today Microsoft announced Microsoft Office 365, our next generation in cloud productivity suite that brings together Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service. As part of today’s news, Microsoft is also opening a limited beta program for Office 365 in 13 countries and regions. (To learn more about Office 365 in general, or the beta program, visit www.office365.com.)

To support the Office 365 beta program, and to give developers their first look at the extensibility story for this new version of SharePoint Online, we’ve launched the SharePoint Online Developer Resource Center on MSDN.

Whether you are participating in the beta program, are planning on creating solutions for SharePoint Online down the road, or are just curious to see what all the talk is about, I encourage you to check out the resource center. We created the resource center to serve as a one-stop shop that pulls together all the resources a developer needs to get up to speed on developing for SharePoint Online, no matter what their skill set and previous experience with SharePoint. This includes articles, blogs, videos, walkthroughs, and in-depth training from across Microsoft web properties such as MSDN, Channel 9, and patterns & practices. We’ve selected the resources you need to ramp up on the developer features available in this new version of SharePoint Online, such as:

· SharePoint Designer customization

· Sandboxed solutions

· SharePoint managed, Silverlight, and ECMAScript client object models

· SharePoint .NET and REST Web services

· Excel, InfoPath Forms, Visio, and Access Services

We plan on keeping the resource center up-to-date as new materials come online (either from Microsoft sources, or the Web in general), so be sure to bookmark the page and check back often. And, as always, if there’s something you want to see in the resource center and don’t, let us know.