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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

Visual Studio Tools (VS Tools)


Upgrading a customization created with VS Tools is a very straightforward operation. There are fewer steps than those needed to upgrade a Dexterity application.

Before getting started, be sure you have the most current release of VS Tools installed.

In this section, you'll walk through the steps to upgrade a VS Tools integration from Dynamics GP release 10 to Dynamics GP release 2010. The procedure is the same for both C# and Visual Basic.

Downloading the application

This example uses a sample application, which you can download. Download this release 10 integration from the address https://www.box.com/s/eqvsyrsv89i6o5p3ahyq. From the web page, select the PostingSOPBatches.zip item as shown in the following screenshot:

After you have downloaded the file, create a new folder named Samples in the \GP2010 VS Tools SDK folder. Extract the contents of the PostingSOPBatches.zip file into that folder. Delete the hidden file PostingSOPBatches2.suo from the extracted files...