Development in Visual Studio 2010 for remote Sharepoint 2010 server

Question

I understand that you can\'t develop in Visual Studio 2010 for a remote Sharepoint 2010 server because you need a local copy running on your box. (I know there is a hack)

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Answer 1

What objects do you need from the remote server?
If it is lists, you can export the lists from the remote server as templates then use the resulting stp files to create the lists locally. If it is dlls you can get them form GAC and add the required entries in SharePoint site web.config. You can also try to export the entire site and create a site locally based on the site template.