Developing for SharePoint on your local computer

If you are wanting to developer solutions for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2008 then you need a couple of things to get started:

• **You will need to install VSeWSS 1.1. ** http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/02/11/announcing-the-final-release-of-vsewss-1-1-and-the-upcoming-version-1-2.aspx 
• Then follow the instructions on Martin Vollmer`s Blog    in his post on getting it installed without Sharepoint.
  http://blogs.msdn.com/martinv/archive/2008/03/19/new-registry-file-for-developing-moss2007-projects-in-a-workstation-xp-or-vista.aspx 
• And to get workflow working you need to again follow the instructions on Martin Vollmer`s Blog    in his post on getting the workflow dll’s out of the server.
  http://blogs.msdn.com/martinv/archive/2008/01/21/developing-custom-moss-2007-sharepoint-workflows-on-a-remote-workstation.aspx 

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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