TL;DR; Guide to setting up Visual Studio 2008 and required tools for developing and testing SharePoint solutions locally without a full SharePoint server installation.

If you are wanting to developer solutions for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008 then you need a couple of things to get started:
Although this is convoluted it does work…
If you are developing for either of my MOSS Codeplex Projects ( MOSS Time Off Management or MOSS Designer Workflow Activities ) then you will need this up and running if you do not want to have to install everything on a SharePoint server…
UPDATE: If you can get this to work, you must be a SharePoint developer guru
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