Creating ASP.NET pages that run in a SharePoint site context

Because I keep losing this link & keep needing to perform 800 searches to find it again, I am bookmarking it here:

SharePoint 2007 – /_layouts and how to create pages that run in site context – Serge van den Oever

It is also a very useful link if you are doing any kind of custom development that requires a custom “settings” type page (for instance, if you are writing a custom workflow without InfoPath to handle the forms).

I also found that you may need to install a hotfix on your Windows 2003 VPC in order to install SP1 for Visual Studio in order to get the web application project type mentioned in that blog post. The hard way. After wasting many valuable hours.