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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:16:36+00:00

I have been asked to develop some usercontrols in ASP.NET that will at a

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I have been asked to develop some usercontrols in ASP.NET that will at a later point be pulled into a SharePoint site as web parts. I am new to SharePoint and will not have access to a SharePoint server during the time I need to prototype these parts.

Does anyone know of any reasons that this approach will not work? If this approach is not recommended, what would other options be? Any suggestions on a resource/tutorial on what to consider when developing an ASP.NET web part with SharePoint in mind?

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Edit: 12/31/2008 I finally marked an answer to this one. It took me a while to realize that going the SharePoint route right away, though painful at first, is the best way to go about it. The free VPC image makes getting set up to develop relatively painless.

While you can, as I did, develop web parts in ASP.NET without SharePoint, when it comes to developing and deploying SharePoint applications you haven’t learned a thing, only pushed the learning curve off into a time when you think you are done, (and have probably informed stakeholders to that effect). To delay the SharePoint learning curve doesn’t do you or your project any favors, and your final product will better for the expertise you gain along the way.

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  1. If it’s a very short-term thing, Microsoft has a time-limited WSS evaluation VPC image:

    WSS3 SP1 Developer Evaluation VPC image

    That will get you started if you don’t have time/resources to set up your own VPC image right now.

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