Setting up a development & deployment enviroment

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best arrangement of systems to develop, test, and deploy SharePoint 2007 workflows I would like to develop on my workstation and run and test on a development server and then deploy to my production server.

Can I use Vista on my workstation and Server 2003 on the servers Has anyone been using virtual machines, if so what are you using for the host OS


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Setting up a development & deployment enviroment

  • ottogbg

    Hi

    Simplest way is to have a virtual machine with MOSS and Visual Studio, Still have not tested Vista a host but i think the beta of VMWare and VPC both support vista.

    How ever if you want to you can develop on your workstation it is possible but in order to keep it simple and easy i would reccomend having the development server on the same domain as the workstation, you will also need to find a few DLLs and register them locally. If you want to get Remote debugging working for the workflow i think you need the full installation of Visual Studio, the remote debugger and the Visual Studio Extension for .Net 3.0 (WWF)

    I have a few comments on this in my blog under "Workflow designer problems in Visual Studio" if it helps.



  • Wendell Wang

    We use Window Server 2003 as our development machines. You can use virtual technologies, but we've found that since most of us doing SharePoint development use the environment 90% of the time, it didn't make sense to have a non-Server desktop. It all depends on your needs.
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