Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Foundation on Windows 7

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 Alik Levin    This post is a summary of steps I have taken to set up a development environment for Sharepoint Foundation on Windows 7. It generally distilled from Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Foundation

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Step-by-step walkthrough

  • Install WCF Hotfix for Windows (KB976462)
  • Create c:\SharePointFiles\ folder
  • Download Sharepoint Foundation 2010 beta to the folder.
  • Extract Sharpoint files by running this command: c:\SharePointFiles\SharePoint /extract:c:\SharePointFiles
  • Add <Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/> to c:\SharePointFiles\files\Setup\config.xml
  • Install Microsoft FilterPack 2.0 Beta by running this command: c:\SharePointFiles\PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\FilterPack\FilterPack.msi
  • Install Microsoft Sync Framework
  • Install SQL Server Native Client
  • Install Microsoft Geneva Framework Beta 1 Runtime for x64
  • Install ADO.NET Data Services v1.5, Runtime Only installer.
  • Execute this commands in command prompt [should be one liner]:

    start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools;IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation;WCF-NonHTTP-Activation

  • Reboot
  • Start installation by running this command: c:\SharePointFiles\Setup.exe
  • Do not proceed with the configuration wizard when prompted. Stop here:

Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Foundation on Windows 7

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