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Join me in my build of an ideal virtualization rig for SharePoint development, inspired by Scott and Jeff’s “Ultimate Developer PC” journey.

A comprehensive guide on debugging and logging in SharePoint is now available. Add comments to share your own debugging tips

The SharePoint Project Utility Visual Studio tool window emulates SharePoint 12 folder structure for developers with Visual Studio 2005/2008 and DXCore

In this post, explain not only how it can be done, but also to explain what is different between the native ASP.NET 2.0 and SharePoint development experience.

Enhancements for Visual Studio 2005/2008 developers with CodeRush and Refactor! Pro. Latest releases tested, download section to be updated.

In this post, I’ll explain how to create WSP’s in Visual Studio 2005 with MakeCab.exe and MSBuild… something VS2005 can’t do by default.

I discuss my issues with Visual Studio’s lack of in customizing version numbers during build. I prefer using a Major.Minor.BuildDate.Revision format.

Maximize your Virtual PC performance with advanced tweaks. Learn to harness every cycle from your VPCs with my comprehensive guide on optimization.

In this article, I explain the steps to boost performance of Virtual PC’s differencing disks. These methods save space and time with administration.

I had a great experience with DevExpress’s CodeRush & Refactor. add-ins for VS2003. They’re incredibly productive and useful tools.

I’m starting a new series on managed debugging and share my personal experience of learning about it in a session by Tim Walton.

I’ve used Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for SharePoint and other dev projects & believe other server software devs share similar experiences.

This article provides a solution for a debugging issue in VS.NET. When manually attaching to a process, debug symbols fail to load.