Where can I get the Microft SharePoint assemblies?

I am trying to workup an automated tool for SharePoint interaction through a Powershell script. Am running into a SharePoint.dll not found issue and upon looking it up(including prev开发者_StackOverflowious posts in StackOverflow), it seems its available in the server. I do not have access to a Sharepoint installation at the moment. Is there some place I could download it or if any one had access to a copy can it be shared?

Thanks Barun

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Just to clarify - a copy of Microsoft.SharePoint.dll will allow you to reference and compile against it but it won't actually work unless its running on a machine with SharePoint properly installed.

A few options for you.

1. You can download, for free Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - but it needs to run on a Windows Server OS (2003+).

2. You can download (for free again) Windows Server 2010 Foundation and get it running on Windows 7 64bit client OS for a development environment.

3. You can download a 30 day trial of MOSS on a preconfigured VHD - basically a complete pre-configured virtual server - but you need Hyper-V or VMWare Server running on a 64 bit CPU to run this virtual server.

4. There is a hack to get WSS running on Vista - but its unsupported and the licensing/legal situation is unclear - very probably its in breach.

5. You could use SharePoint's web services then you won't need the dll or access to the SharePoint server apart through the web services - which assuming you can browse it you should be able to get.

UPDATE: Option (3) is no longer available. As workaround, you could download a VHD with SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard (x64), and install SharePoint 2010 on it.

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No, you cannot download it from any 3rd party sites. It is not licensed that way. If you own a copy of Windows Server (2003 or 2008), you will be able to download WSS 3.0 from Microsoft's public download location. From this, you can get Microsoft.SharePoint.dll.

-Oisin

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Microsoft.SharePoint.dll itself epends on lots of other DLL's and a Database underneath SharePoint. You must have SharePoint to test against it.

But just yesterday I ran on some stuff called SharePoint testing using Typemock isolator. What it does is it fakes SharePoint objects without needing all that database and other stuff. There is a nice presentation available. Havent tried myself, but maybe that leads you on the path. See if it helps you.

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There is NuGet package for the Sharepoint client. This is the fastest way....