Announcing SharePoint Easy Setup for Developers

Starting today developers can download a new set of pre-packaged tools that help developers easily get started with SharePoint 2010 development by automating the provisioning of a developer workstation using Windows 7, SharePoint & associated tools.

Written in Windows PowerShell these scripts will install and configure all the pre-requisites & products to get you up and running with SharePoint development.

Additionally they will download evaluation copies of the products it installs (or use fully licensed product bits you supply), install them either locally or in a user supplied Windows 7 VHD & set that VHD up for dual boot using the Windows 7 VHD native boot feature.  It also allows you to configure what products are installed via a configuration file, so you can add or remove products.

All the source is included for your use.  If a particular aspect of the setup isn’t right for your requirements then you have the ability to change it.  A good example of this might be to configure the SharePoint installation to fit your organizations standard deployment.

Out of the box it will help you install:

SharePoint Server 2010 + pre-requisites (Standalone)
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition
Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio
Expression Studio 4 Ultimate
Open XML SDK
Visual Studio SDK
Visual Studio SharePoint Power Tools
Office 2010 Professional Plus
SharePoint Designer 2010
Visio 2010

Download the kit