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    <p>Depending on the environment that you are using there are multiple strategies to setup your machine for Sharepoint Development. </p> <p>If you are using an operating system such as Windows XP, Vista, or 7 you will not be able to install either Sharepoint 2007, Windows Sharepoint Services, or Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, since they all require a server operating system - Sharepoint 2010 will allow you to install on Vista or 7 (x64) though. The Sharepoint assemblies are installed on the machine when you install Sharepoint. Your options here are either:</p> <ol> <li><p>Use Virtual PC to create a virtual Windows 2003 instance, which you will use for your development. You will install Sharepoint 2007, Sharepoint Services, Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Sharepoint. You will use this virtual instance for your development and testing before deploying to your testing server then production.</p></li> <li><p>If you don't want to do virtualization then you can just use Windows 2003 as your main operating system and follow the same steps above.</p></li> <li><p>If you want to stick with XP, Vista, or 7 without virtualization then you can copy the necessary assemblies from your Sharepoint server to your local machine. You can't use the Visual Studio Extensions, but you will still be able to develop for Sharepoint with the assemblies. This solution will make it a little more difficult to debug though, because you will need to deploy your code to a test Sharepoint server to do it.</p></li> </ol> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>Visual Studio on its own can't open Sharepoint sites, because it wasn't designed to edit Sharepoint sites. You would use Visual Studio to create web parts, workflows, etc... Sharepoint Designer on the other hand was designed for editing pages and I would recommend using it for site edits.</p> <p>BUT, if you would still rather use Visual Studio, then you can use the following Visual Studio Add-In to open your Sharepoint site in Visual Studio:</p> <p><a href="http://spdevexplorer.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://spdevexplorer.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p>I personally haven't used it, so I can't be certain of how good it is. </p> <p>Hope this helps.</p>
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