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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 10. Creating Customizations with VS Tools

When Microsoft introduced Visual Studio Tools (VS Tools) for Microsoft Dynamics GP, the development opportunities for Dynamics GP increased vastly. Now C# (C Sharp) and VB.NET (Visual Basic .NET) programmers could build .NET-based integrated applications using tools they were already familiar with. Dexterity didn't rule the roost anymore.

In this chapter, you will get to work with Visual Studio Tools. We'll explore several areas, which include the following:

  • The architecture of the VS Tools add-in for Dynamics GP

  • Installing VS Tools for Dynamics GP

  • Using the tool to create a custom entry window

  • Accessing resources in the Dynamics dictionary

  • Building an assembly to access resources in a third-party dictionary

  • Providing navigation to open your custom window

  • Basic table operations

  • Working with ranges

  • Building and deploying your application

That's a lot to touch on in one chapter, but we can do it! Roll up your sleeves and we'll dig into VS Tools for Dynamics...