SharePoint Development Environment

[SensFan786]

Hello All:

I am setting up a development environment for SharePoint for my office and I was recommended to keep developer's tool (Visual Studio) ona different machine then MOSS.

I have MOSS on a virual machine and VS 2008 on a different machine.

But how will I create SharePoint features using VS 2008 if I have no SharePoint dlls installed on developer's machine? Many post on internet says its better to keep developer's tool away from MOSS server machine but no one talks about what should be installed to get SharePoint assembelies?

Also if I need to deploy solutions developed using visual studio, how can i access STSADM utility on developer's machine?

I am new in SharePoint development and I will appreciate advice from you guys (SharePoint Gurus)

Thanks

 

[dinger2121]

I have three environments set up for my development - dev, staging, and production.
I have all of my development tools (Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008) as well as a 1 machine instance of MOSS installed on my dev system which is a virtual system. I then have a virtual staging farm and a physical production farm which do not have the development tools installed on them.

I think that it is best to not put any development tools on your production system, but I don't see a problem putting them within a dev system.

hope this helps.

 

[SensFan786]

Thanks for your reply.

In your situation you have MOSS in same machine where you have Visual Studio, so you can build code, create solutions in same machine.

I have following setup:

My workstation which has only Visual Studio 2008 (No MOSS)
Virtual Machine which has MOSS, IIS (No developers tool)
And Production Server (Physical server with MOSS,IIS and no Visual Studio)

I did write a prototype after I posted my question on here.

I wrote a sample SharePoint feature and to compile it, I copied DLLs from Virtual SharePoint Server to my workstation and I was able to compile it successfully.

Now I have to figure it out, how to copy files to remote Virtual SharePoint Server to build solutions and test it before I deploy it to Production server.

Is there any better and easy way I can use compiled files from my workstation to build solution in Virtual Machine Server for testing and deployment?

Your help is appreciated.