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Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications

By : Leslie Vail
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Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications

By: Leslie Vail

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics GP is a sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application with a multitude of features and options. Microsoft Dynamics GP can also be used to develop dynamic, mission critical applications. In "Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications" you will learn how to create and customize Dynamics GP Applications. This hands-on guide will take you through the initial steps of setting up a development environment through to customizing and developing an example application using tools such as Dexterity, VSTools and sanScript. "Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications" will take you through the complex steps of creating and customizing Microsoft Dynamics GP applications. Starting with an overview of Microsoft Dynamics GP architecture you'll then move onto setting up your development environment. You will learn how to make your application come to life with Dexterity and sanScript. You will create table operations and ranges as well as object triggers to make powerful and practical business applications. You will deploy your Dexterity solution before moving onto customization with Modifier and VBA. This book will also take you through ways of enhancing and extending your application without code using the SmartList Builder and Excel Report Builder. Using these highly flexible tools you'll be able to create data connections that will increase the usability and functionality of your ERP applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Developing Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Applications
Credits
About the Author
Index

Chapter 1. Microsoft Dynamics GP Architecture

You can develop applications that seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Dynamics GP, so that the user will not be able to tell when your code is running versus the original Dynamics GP code. Creating such integrating applications first requires that you have an intimate knowledge of Dynamics GP's architecture. By architecture, we mean the design that allows the product to evolve with technological advancements and embrace the increasing demands for performance and capacity. This lasting design is a framework of interdependent components that weave together to create the application we know today. Understanding the components of Dynamics GP and how they work together will prepare you to design a solution that will evolve alongside Dynamics GP as it meets the demands of this ever-changing market.

This chapter is a 10,000 foot view of Dynamics GP, how it was built, why it was built that way, and how this affects your application. Upon completion of this chapter, you will understand the components that make up Dynamics GP and how your application fits into that architecture. This chapter will provide an overview of the following topics:

  • The native user interface

  • Dexterity overview

  • Components of the Dynamics GP application

  • SQL table and procedure names

  • What you see – the user interface (UI)