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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about what the process looks like when you are faced with an upgrade. As you see, each type of customization goes down a different path to arrive at the same destination.

You learned that Dynamics GP SDK is a fabulous resource when you need to learn about the changes to the data model from version to version.

You did a sample upgrade of both a Dexterity customization and a VS Tools add-in. The two most feature-rich tools also require the most effort to update.

You looked at several scenarios that can bring down a VBA customization, and where you can find some help for this. Finally, the best of the bunch in terms of upgrade effort has to be SmartList Builder and Excel Report Builder. If there aren't any SQL complications or widespread metadata changes, upgrading Dynamics GP to a new release will automatically upgrade your Builder customization.

In the next chapter, you'll learn where to go from here and how to get there. The chapter is rich with information...