One of the things the SharePoint team has been
very focused on the last few months has been with putting together free
application templates that you can download and use with Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0 (which is the free version of SharePoint that you can download and
install on any Windows Server box).
You can learn more about these application templates here. Below is a list of some of the templates with
custom web parts provided for free download today:
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Board of Directors
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Business Performance Reporting
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Case Management for Government Agencies
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Classroom Management
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Clinical Trial Initiation and Management
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Competitive Analysis Site
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Discussion Database
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Disputed Invoice Management
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Employee Activities Site
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Employee Self-Service Benefits
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Employee Training Scheduling and Materials
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Equity Research
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Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking
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Manufacturing Process Management
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New Store Opening
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Product and Marketing Requirements Planning
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Request for Proposal
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Sports League
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Team Work Site
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Timecard Management
What is great about these templates is that once you
download and install them, you can optionally add custom ASP.NET web parts
to it, and use standard ASP.NET 2.0 techniques to customize it further.
This makes it dramatically easier to build and deploy common solution
applications.