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found the following articles that appear to be a solution:<br />
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-<a href="http://www.jbmurphy.com/2012/02/09/how-to-use-visual-studio-to-package-a-sharepoint-solution-if-you-dont-have-sharepoint-installed/" rel="ugc">http://www.jbmurphy.com/2012/02/09/how-to-use-visual-studio-to-package-a-sharepoint-solution-if-you-dont-have-sharepoint-installed/</a><br />
-<a href="http://pinchii.com/home/2011/01/fixing-a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer-error/" rel="ugc">http://pinchii.com/home/2011/01/fixing-a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer-error/</a><br />
-<a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/cda807f6-4edf-4efc-8e9b-4d446356c8ae/a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/cda807f6-4edf-4efc-8e9b-4d446356c8ae/a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious</a><br />
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still finding this hard to believe. anyone have any experience with either of these solutions or any comments on developing on a SharePoint server?<br />
<br />
Thanks,
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found the following articles that appear to be a solution:

-http://www.jbmurphy.com/2012/02/09/how-to-use-visual-studio-to-package-a-sharepoint-solution-if-you-dont-have-sharepoint-installed/ [http://www.jbmurphy.com/2012/02/09/how-to-use-visual-studio-to-package-a-sharepoint-solution-if-you-dont-have-sharepoint-installed/]
-http://pinchii.com/home/2011/01/fixing-a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer-error/ [http://pinchii.com/home/2011/01/fixing-a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer-error/]
-http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/cda807f6-4edf-4efc-8e9b-4d446356c8ae/a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/cda807f6-4edf-4efc-8e9b-4d446356c8ae/a-sharepoint-server-is-not-installed-on-this-computer?forum=sharepointdevelopmentprevious]

still finding this hard to believe. anyone have any experience with either of these solutions or any comments on developing on a SharePoint server?

Thanks,

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Experts:<br />
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I'm reviewing a SharePoint project built by a previous employee and am getting the following warning from Visual Studio:<br />
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&quot;To work with this project, either SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010 must be installed on the system.&quot;<br />
<br />
I find this hard to believe? Is this true that I have to either install SharePoint locally or work with this application from a SharePoint server? Is there a way around this?<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance.
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Experts:

I'm reviewing a SharePoint project built by a previous employee and am getting the following warning from Visual Studio:

"To work with this project, either SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010 must be installed on the system."

I find this hard to believe? Is this true that I have to either install SharePoint locally or work with this application from a SharePoint server? Is there a way around this?

Thanks in advance.

Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint

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Microsoft SharePoint

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