Creating a development environment for SharePoint

Question

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 an

Answer 1

You can download an Office SharePoint Server VHD from Microsoft. This allows you to run a virtual Windows Server & SharePoint Server on your personal machine using Virtual Server.

I recently went through this process and wrote a blog article describing how to setup a virtual Office SharePoint Server.