Understanding Setup Of MOSS 2007 Development Environment

I will be posting about my understanding which should be helpful for new users to understand the basics and the most important considerations to be taken into account to set up MOSS 2007 Dev. Environment. For convenience i will break the post into points to be considered and might delt with ease.

1.>Installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007)

1.A> Edition Selections

MOSS 2007 comes in two Editions, namely Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition.If you require features like e.g. Business Data Catalog, Excel Calculation Services, Forms Server 2007 etc during development, then simply use the Enterprise Key for installation of MOSS.

Which SharePoint technology is right for you? For complete reference use >

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/FX101758691033.aspx

1.B> Installation Style:

While installing of MOSS 2007 you opt for "Stand Alone" or "Complete" installation; either option will work but with "Complete", you can select the SQL SERVER to host your databases,

plus you can add other servers to the deployment.

2.> Virtualization in Development Environment:

Options available for virtualization like e.g VMware , Microsoft Hyper-V(comes with Windows Server 2008) , Microsoft Virtual Server , Microsoft VPC etc. for large organization, most likely you have to maintain several development environments so VIRTULIZATION comes handy.

3.> Development Framework: VS 2005/ 2008

Any flavor of VS could be used with the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1.These are the Visual Studio project templates for developing Web-parts, Site Definitions, and List Definitions. They also contain an application ,that generates MOSS 2007 solution file for you. These extensions can be downloaded from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3E1DCCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en for VS 2005 &

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bf65b28-06e2-4e87-9bad-086e32185e68&displaylang=en for VS 2008.

4.>SharePoint Serve 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit

MOSS 2007 SDK, comes with a lot of samples which could be downloaded with folowing link.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D94E307-67D9-41AC-B2D6-0074D6286FA9&displaylang=en

Happy Reading and hope it creates your dev env up and running.

Cheers,

Mukesh Giri