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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

System requirements


Sometimes we overlook one of the most basic components of our new application. Does the client's system meet the requirements for Dynamics GP? Fortunately, this is well documented.

General requirements

Check the following link for the current list of general requirements for Dynamics GP 2010:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/using/gp-system-requirements.aspx

Check the following link for requirements if you need any of the Dynamics GP 2010 web applications:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/using/gp-web-apps.aspx

We've seen clients running unsupported versions of SQL Server, and even outdated versions of Windows on the client machines. You can't assume everyone keeps up to date like you do.

The following table lists the basic minimums for Dynamics GP release 2010:

Client

Server

Not applicable to client

SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server 2008 with SP1 or later

SQL Server 2005 with SP3 or later

Windows 7 (Professional or Ultimate Editions), or Windows Vista SP2 or...