Environments

The complex nature of the dependent resources required for development and testing for SharePoint Products and Technologies creates unique challenges for the developer.

Development Environment

Developing infrastructure components for SharePoint Server 2007 poses some unique problems. Of primary concern is the fact that the SharePoint Server 2007 platform must be run on a server operating system (Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008). Most development groups have standardized on Windows XP and Windows Vista for their development workstations. While it is possible to compile programs against the SharePoint Object Model by copying the appropriate assemblies (.dll) to the development machine, virtualization technologies provide a ...

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