SharePoint 2010 Development Environment

Here is my SharePoint development environment configuration set up in a virtual machine:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bits SP1
  • Domain name: dev.internal
  • Machine name: sp2010
• Visual Studio 2010 Premium SP1
  • Visual C#
  • Visual Basic .NET
• Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 64 bits SP1
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 64 bits
• Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise 2008 R2 64 bits
  • Analysis Services
  • Reporting Services
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
• Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
• Windows PowerShell ISE

For productivity purpose I have tuned the following settings:

• Shut down tracker disabled
• “14” environment variable pointing to “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14”
• “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\BIN” added to PATH
• Central admin address: http://sp2010:40000