Team-Based Development of WSS and SPS Applications - My 2 cents

On MSDN there is an article about how to deal with SharePoint development environments, Team-Based Development of WSS and SPS Applications.

Some more suggestions for doing team based development:

Create a Virtual PC template with SharePoint, VS.Net and everything you need installed

Make copies of this Virtual PC template and rename the Windows 2003 Server hosted in your Virtual PC for every individual developer

Setup the Virtual PC to use a shared network connection and deploy your Visual SourceSafe database within your LAN

Use Visual Sourcesafe for everything you can imagine : webparts, site definitions, web services, setup projects, etc...

Use scripts and setup files to keep your development, test and production environment in sync

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