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I haven’t touched sharepoint in years. If I want to setup a development environment to get up to speed, what options do I have? I don’t have an MSDN license, is there anyway I can get up and running for free? (for development only)
You need a Windows 2003 Server (or 2008 Server, but I have no experience with that), no way around that. You can then of course use Visual C# 2005 Express and the SHarepoint Services 3.0 if that’s your target.
If you want to do development on Sharepoint 2007, you have to buy a Sharepoint 2007 license, which has a pretty hefty fee attached to it.
As a SQL, SQL 2005 Express works fine for development.
There is a good Article how to set up Sharepoint on a Single Server:
http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/03/28/how-to-install-sharepoint-server-2007-on-a-single-machine.aspx
You CAN use a Trial Version of Windows 2003 and Sharepoint 2007 though if it’s only needed for a limited time (i believe the Trials run 180 days).