After long time I have got some free time to spend for my blog. I started writing a series of articles which will help all of you to discover various deployment options of SharePoint 2010 as a development environment. Also this can be used as a guideline when you setup your actual project development environment.

Please feel free to enjoy the Part I of this series of articles - http://www.sharepoint24x7.com/2010/11/article-setting-up-a-sharepoint-2010-environment-for-try-outs-or-development-%e2%80%93-part-i-introduction/