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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 11. Upgrading Customizations

It is inevitable; with each enhancement we create, another release of Dynamics GP is just around the corner. In this chapter, we'll explore what you need to do to update your customizations when you upgrade to the next release of Dynamics GP. Some customizations will require few, if any, upgrade tasks, while others will require quite a number of steps.

This chapter is not intended to be a comprehensive upgrade guide, but rather an introduction to what the upgrade process looks like. We will cover the following key topics:

  • How to use Dynamics GP SDK

  • Upgrading a Dexterity customization

  • Upgrading a customization using Modifier with VBA

  • Upgrading Extender, SmartList Builder, and Excel Report Builder customizations

  • Upgrading a Visual Studio Tools add-in

Determining if there were any changes to the resources that your customization uses is an important part of every customization upgrade, regardless of the type of customization. Studying the SDK is the right place...