EDIT 6/31/2010: This works just the same for VS2010. The second paragraph below made me smile... I did the same thing when 2010 came out - Steve 

You probably should not upgrade any VS Tools project from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 because - although it works - there are several things that don't work... or are hard to do.

 But... that's not me. I loaded 2008 the day it came out.

If you upgrade, you'll have to copy the DynamicsGPProject.zip file (just search for it) into C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Basic. That will allow you to create a VS Tools project.

Here's how to move the 'Item Template' for the Dynamics GP form, so you can create forms directly in VS 2008:

Copy C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\VisualBasic\1033\DynamicsGPform.zip

to

C:\Documents and Settings\sgray\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual Basic

It'll appear below the standard templates in the 'my templates' area 

My thanks to Patrick on the Dynamics GP support team, they've always been very good.

From Patrick:

one thing you might note in your post that the code you have there is the 9.0 version.  We changed the name/namespace of the dll in 10.0 (boo for development) in 10.0

So your post might be moodifed to say:

For v9.0 use:

Inherits Microsoft.Dexterity.Shell.UI.DexUIForm

For v10.0 use

Inherits Microsoft.Dexterity.Shell.DexUIForm

I just removed the "UI" part and you're good.  I'll have to try this on my 2005/2008 machine as well as I'd like to spend some time in 2008 since it's the next big thing.

Hi, sorry for bringing back an old thread but I have a related issue.

I was finally able to install vstools for vs2008 using the service pack 2 as suggested in this page, and installed the visual studio 2008 templates included in that service pack. That allowed me to create a MS Dynamics GP Add in, but it still won't give me the option to add a Dynamics GP Form.

I've tried doing the inheritance but I still don't get the Dynamics Form properties,  is there a workaround or a way to fix this?

Thanks in advance

wops, my bad, I hadn't touched VS since I started developing in dexterity and I had forgotten to put the reference to the Microsoft.Dexterity.Shell assembly