Sharepoint 2010 development on Windows XP 32-bit?

Possible or not?

I know Sharepoint 2010 Server won't even run on a client side of Vista/Windows 7 64-bit, forget about Windows XP 32-bit.

But if I can install and use Visual Studio 2010 on Windows XP just fine, shouldn't Sharepoint development tools also work on Windows XP 32-bit?

The thing is I have a very old laptop (from 2005) that doesn't even support 64-bit architecture so I am stuck with WinXP 32bit.

If there is any way at all of (Remote?) Sharepoint devel开发者_StackOverflow中文版opment on Windows XP 32-bit with VS2010 please let me know.

Most of what the developer tools offer you make two assumptions:

• You are running on a 64-bit architecture
• SharePoint is installed side-by-side with Visual Studio

Running on a 32-bit XP machine breaks these assumptions. Many of the built-in Visual Studio productivity aids, such as the deploy and retract commands, will fail. I couldn't even create a project using the SharePoint 2010 project template under similar conditions.

You might make some headway by using regular class library or web application projects, copying SharePoint .dll's from a server's GAC (for use as references) and by manually creating your .ddl and .wsp files using MakeCab (as I did with 2007, with a little help from PowerShell); however, it sounds excruciating compared to running on Vista SP2 X64 or Windows 7 X64 with SharePoint installed.

As per the above answer, VS 2010 SharePoint projects require a local installation of SharePoint. You can use external tools for doing your development, such as WSPBuilder, but I do not recommend this approach. You are best sticking to the MS tools.

Your options are:

1. Upgrade to Windows 7 x64 or Server 2008 R2
2. Run VMWare Server (free) which should enable you to run a 64-bit VM on a 32-bit host (I think? Not sure about this assumption actually), and create a VM with Win7 x64 or Win 2008 R2 for SP development.

You can use Win7 64bit as your dev environment http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx