One of the main dificulties when you want to create your (first) Sheer UI is creating a good project.
With these steps you can make an easy, clear ‘workfloor’. Ofcourse you need to have Visual Studio installed(I’m talking about version 2003 now) and you should run a SiteCore 5 local 
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- Create a garbage folder on you desktop: for example ‘My First Garbage collecting folder’
- Now… Open Visual Studio
- File > New > Project
- Select ‘Empty Project’
- Give the project the namespace you want to use. That’s what I recommendate. I would use: Sitecore.Modules.Lectric.[ModuleName]
- Change the Location to the garbage folder on your desktop
- Now click ‘Ok’
- Close you Visual Studio now
- Browse to your Garbage folder and find the folder with the name of your project
- In another window, browse to your local installed Sitecore folder.
- Copy all files on the root of the project folder(in the Garbage folder) to your local installed Sitecore folder, but leave all subfolders untouched.
- Delete the garbage folder now including subfolders
- Now start the project again by doubleclicking on the project/solution file(*.vbproj/*.csproj/*.sln).
- Wait a minute, you’ve already done a lot. Take a cup of coffee 
. You are worth it!
- The only thing you have to do is changing some of the Project Properties. Todo that, just cloick right on the project and select ‘Properties’
- Change the name of the assembly and default namespace to the ones you want. My suggection: Keep them the same as each other. When you default namespace is Sitecore.Module.Lectric.AlexSheerUI, your dll should be Sitecore.Module.Lectric.AlexSheerUI.dll so you should always be able to find delete and manipulate it!
- Also don’t forget to select the default Output Type: Library
- Then select Configuration Properties.
- On the top of your screen next to the label Configuration select ‘Debug’ from the DropDownList. Change the ouput path to bin\
- Do the same as above for the Configuration ‘Release’.
Guess you are ready now to follow the tutorial on SDN: My First Sheer UI. Ofcourse you need to have access to SDN. Just contact your partner, as long as the partner isn’t on of the Dutch partners 
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Oh yeah, I’ve got two last hints for you fooks!
1. When you use the CodeBeside, you have to inherit your class from the baseclass: Sitecore.Web.UI.Sheer.BaseForm
2. You can access your application directly outside of the client: http://[yourhost]/sitecore/shell/sitecore/content/Applications/[yourapplication].aspx
Soon more, as I’m currently heavy working on my first colelction of cool Sheer UI’s
