Development MOSS 2007 Webparts on Windows XP computer

30 min. of wasting time - at least!

The issue. You want to develop components that interact with the SharePoint, lets say a simple Webpart. Here comes the clue, you local machine is a Windows XP machine and you are not able to install MOSS 2007 on it. What a pitty!

So here we go

Surly I tried to find them on the server but had a hard time.

Navigate to your Server like this:

\\SharedServerMitMOSS2007\C$\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ISAPI

copy it to your local environment and simply refernece it in your project.

what do you mean, can I send Microsoft a bill for wasting so much time???