There are a bunch of posts out there on how to get your SharePoint development environment up and running. A quick search on “Setting up your SharePoint development environment” will yield plenty of results to skim through to fit your needs. However,...

If you are developing custom SharePoint applications there is a good chance that you are going to need some custom web services at some point, especially if you are making use of AJAX and JSON.  There is a great walkthrough over on MSDN on how to...