This past week I just finished a class on MOSS 2007 development, and I don’t know if I am any closer to understanding it.

The reason is not that I am that obtuse, but that by design, SharePoint development is generally performed sitting on a server with SharePoint Designer. However, we can’t do that…all of our functionality has to be deployable in *.wsp files. There are many challenges to this limitation, most especially sequencing installation and configuration conflicts (interdependencies, etc.)

There doesn’t seem to be much out there about having to package it up yourself and developing in VS.NET, though this limitation has to be fairly common among DoD contractors.

All in all, it gets very frustrating.