Where to start with Sharepoint/ASP.NET development?
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Hi, I want to write an ASP.NET application that can manipulate documents on a SharePoint portal. I want to be able to upload documents and do searches for keywords, etc. I haven't worked with SharePoint before but I've set up a site and it all looks straight-forward enough. I thought I'd just be able to work with the web services but it seems strangely sparse on features for the document workspace. It looks like I really need to implement my own web service on the SharePoint server which provides all the custom stuff my external application will need. I thought I'd need to implement a separate ASP.NET application rather than write a page on the SharePoint server because it needs to be made available within an IFRAME in another (large) web application. However, the more I think about it, surely I should be writing a web part on the SharePoint server which can then be included as an IFRAME within my web application. Also, I can't seem to get anything to work on my local machine, other than a basic call to the document workspace web service, e.g. <code>dws.GetDwsData()</code> - will I need to develop actually on the SharePoint server itself so that I can access the <code>Microsoft.SharePoint </code>assembly? That means installing Visual Studio on the SharePoint server doesn't it? :~ I have installed the SharePoint SDK but I still can't reference the <code>Microsoft.SharePoint </code>assembly :(