Practice with sharepoint 2010 online

Question

I want to learn sharepoint 2010. To setup environment it costs nearly 20,000 INR for me. Instead of that is there any site to give access to their machines and give an opportunity to practice the sharepoint development and features etc. I know this is not relevant question here to ask, but this is only site in which masters can give quick response.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this one. I too just found it. Virtual Machine

Here we are able to access the sharepoint 2010 and visual studio as well.

Answer 2

Office 365 will give you some end user functionality testing but if you are going to be doing sharepoint development you really need a localized environment. Sandboxed solutions will get you far but only a portion of what it takes to truly do sharepoint development.

I'd suggest starting with sharepoint foundation on a localized environment. This can be installed on a windows 7 computer with SQL Server express and does not require any licensing other than the host machine of windows 7 and can run with 4gb of memory.

Answer 3

http://www.cloudshare.com/

Create Pro Account which is free for 14 days

set up your own environment by selecting suitable templates

Answer 4

If you want to play with SharePoint without the costs of setting up your own SharePoint environment, you might have some luck with Office365

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/sharepoint-online.aspx#fbid=QOhSDqk0-P4

EDIT: Looks like that link isn't around anymore, if you are reading this now then try here: https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-online-collaboration-software

Answer 5

Cloud share is best to practice for 14 days otherwise setting up VM is a good option

Regards, Harika