Missing AX EP web project in Visual Studio 2008

So you have installed the Enterprise Portal Development tools add in for Visual Studio 2008. Everything works for you, but other users are complaining that they can’t see the AX web project template: 

Here's what you need to do:

1 - Verify the installation of VS2008

The EP dev tools setup installs EP project, control templates and Visual studio Add-In for VS 2008. Remember that EP dev tools must be installed on the same machine as Enterprise Portal

The Web Site project template (AxWebProject.zip is installed in My Documents folder under:

Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Web Developer\CSharp

Page and control templates AxWebpartPage.zip and AxWebUserControl.zip under:

Visual Studio 2008 \Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual Web Developer\CSharp

The Add-in is installed in

Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics AX\50\EnterprisePortalTools 

and is added to the VS  Add-in files path and enabled.

You can check this in VS Tools->Options->Add-in you should see

  

 In VS Tools -> Add-In Manager  Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal Tools must be enabled.

To check if everything is installed correctly, when you create a new Web Site Project in VS 2008 C#, you should see Dynamics AX Web project template. 

If a user can see Microsoft Dynamics Ax Web Project template it’s because in his/her profile on system the template is available. In general the template is located on a windows 2003 server at

C:\Documents and Settings\[user id ]\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Web Developer\CSharp\ AxWebProject.zip 

To make Microsoft Dynamics Ax Web Project template available for other users copy the Templates folder from the user who can see template and paste it to other users’ profile.

It assumed that your templates are available in the default located as mentioned in above path 

·         Go to C:\Documents and Settings\[user id ]\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008

·         Copy Templates folder

·         Open the other users’ profile and go to C:\Documents and Settings\[user id ]\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\

·         Paste the Templates folder. If system says to overwrite it click on yes option. 

Then, you may need to refresh Visual Studios cache of templates after copying them:

·         Open the Visual Studio command prompt (Start \ Programs \ Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 \ Visual Studio Tools \ Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt) and type devenv /installvstemplates.

If you still don't see the template, remember that you need to select C# as your project programming language before it shows up.

  

If you can see the template but can't connect to the AX AOS from Visual Studio check the following:

·         Check that .NET Business Connector has been correctly installed and that the configuration points to the correct AOS instance.
Check that the user you run Visual Studio with, has login and proper development permissions in AX.

·         Check that the "Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal Tools" Add-in is correctly installed in Visual Studio. Open Visual Studio / Tools / Add-in Manager to verify that Add-in is correctly installed and configured. If you can't see it, you must reinstall the EP Development Tools.