Debugging SharePoint 2007 Code

Question

How do you debug your SharePoint 2007 code? Since SharePoint runs on a remote server, and I\'m developing on a windows xp machine (with the necessary .dll files copied into my

Answer 1

Virtual machine is the only way to go. You don't want to dedicate a whole machine to dev (unless you have extras) and developing on your production server is just asking for trouble. I prefer VMWare, but there are others that work just as well.

Tracing works well as normal debugging isn't really an option.

What else I do is try to develop all the logic (the stuff that isn't SharePoint dependent) on just a regular asp.net site, then integrate it into SharePoint after it's tested.

Hope that makes sense.

Are you talking about developing web parts? Custom pages? Something else?