Again, we are back with a work-around to a Windows 7 / Visual Studio issue.
In the original version of Visual Studio Tools for Dynamics GP 10, the installer only includes Visual Studio 2005 templates. It flatly refuses to install these templates on Visual Studio 2008, so you have to uncheck it to install.
Now what is the point of installing the Visual Studio Tools if you must choose NOT to install the main part of the program (and only interface) to continue??????
In order to get them to show up, I went into the control panel, selected "Visual Studio Tools for Dynamics GP 10.0 SDK" and clicked Change. I then chose Add/Remove Components and checked the Visual Studio 2008 Templates. After the install completed, I had the appropriate objects in Visual Studio.
After some poking around, I discovered that SP2 and later of the toolkit includes the templates for Visual Studio 2008. When you run the SP installs, there is a minimal install interface (Just continue and done). So you would expect the templates to be there after the patch, right? Wrong! Since you had to uncheck the templates during the initial install, they remain unchecked after the patch.
To recap, the steps are:
1. Install the Visual Studio Toolkit with the 2005 Templates unchecked
2. Install Visual Studio Toolkit SP2 or greater.
3. Use Add/Remove programs to add the 2008 templates.
There may be a better way to do this, and I can't find any documentation on what Microsoft actually intends for you to do about it, but this seems to work fine.
Happy Friday!
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