Today I needed to install the sharepoint SDK because I need to write some code to access it.  So I installed the OfficeServerSDK.exe setup which contains all the SDK stuff.  After it is installed I had to ‘find’ where on my drive it was placed.  After some hunting, I found it on my E: drive.  Great.

Inside the new directory is a great big .chm file.  I opened this bad boy up and it looked great.  There is more information inside this chm than I can process in a life time.  However, NOWHERE does it tell you where to find the damn .dll’s with the sdk.

So I set out searching my box for Microsoft.sharepoint.dll.  It was NOT found.  I started searching the net to only come across this post (found here).  Turns out the .dll’s are NOT installed with the sdk, WTF.  I had to go look on the server where WSS was installed in order to find them.  But the only way to find the file was to do an entire search for Microsoft.Sharepoint.dll on the hard drive.  I finally found it at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ISAPI

What SDK does not install the damn assemblies…..

Ok, My rant is over.