Stone Coast Web Design's Weblog

I've found it surprising how tricky it is to run ordinary .aspx pages and applications in Sharepoint.  Chris Johnson from Microsoft offers some interesting alternatives on how to do this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2006/09/05/740498.aspx

One of the cooler tools I've come across for this is SmartPart which is a generic Web part allows you to host any ASP.NET user control within your SharePoint sites. It allows for a designer-driven approach to developing Web parts instead of very code-intensive approach that is available out-of-the box with SharePoint.  You can download SmartPart here. Jans offers a video and a user's guide to get you started.