I'm still trying to get my arms around Sharepoint. If I'm developing a website outside of Sharepoint, is it possible to access files stored on sharepoint? Or, better yet, can all my files associated with my website reside on Sharepoint?

If you are hosting static web content, then you might have your files (HTML, CSS, etc) reside in a separate virtual directory in IIS. You should be able to link to items hosted on sharepoint, but you will likely need to ensure that permissions are set correctly for the files in SharePoint. You might use a SharePoint List or Document Library to store items like word documents, Excel documents, etc. Does this answer your question? -- Mike Burr

What if I am using .Net and accessing database files?

You can use .Net. The main limitation with SharePoint is that you can't have an ASP.Net site that is a child site of a SharePoint site. http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet4/breaking-changes#0.1__Toc256770151 You can develop ASP.Net Web Parts and controls and use them in SharePoint. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297200%28office.12%29.aspx-- Mike Burr

Thanks. I've been doing some reading on web parts, but for now I'm thinking of having an ASP.Net site and access Sharepoint for lists and document libraries. Is that possible? So, the ASP.Net site would be similar to the "static web site" that you mentioned above? (Once I learn about web parts and am better able to design a sharepoint site so that it doesn't look like sharepoint, then I would forgo my asp.net site -- potentially)

Hi, As this issue is related to SharePoint, I suggest discussing it in our SharePoint forum. They should be the best resource to troubleshoot this issue. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/sharepoint/ Tim Quan

I haven't done it personally, but based on what I've found, the most common way of doing this is by accessing the SharePoint web services, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862916%28office.12%29.aspx-- Mike Burr

Thanks!