SharePoint document library in ASP.NET application

[Shred]

Instead of putting my whole application in SharePoint just for document library functionality, I want to do it the other way around. Create my normal ASP.NET application and somehow add SharePoint document library functionality inside it.

Now, I do not want to go and reinvent the wheel and use the Web Service API, I want to somehow expose a document library with the toolbar and all the functionality inside ASP.NET

Anyone done this before or can offer advise?

 

[MielieSpoor]

By using the API you won't be reinventing the wheel... you would be using the wheel...

Why would be using the API not work?

Can you maybe elaborate on what exactly it is you want to achieve?

 

[Shred]

By using the API you won't be reinventing the wheel... you would be using the wheel...

Why would be using the API not work?

Can you maybe elaborate on what exactly it is you want to achieve?

I hear you, but I do not want to spend time creating the UI for the document library. I mean, there are tool bars, drop downs, etc that I would like to make use of.

Picture a document library without all the other master page stuff. Now I would like to put that in my app.