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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

Installing VS Tools


Before we can use VS Tools for Dynamics GP, we need to install the following:

  • Visual Studio 2005 or higher

  • Microsoft Dynamics GP version 9.0 or higher

  • Visual Studio Tools for Dynamics GP SDK for the corresponding version of Dynamics GP

We presume that you have the first two software of the preceding list installed. In this chapter, we will be using Visual Studio 2010 and Dynamics GP release 2010 R2.

Download it

To install VS Tools, the first thing you need to do is download it. It can be a little difficult to find on your own. Using the following steps will lead you right to it:

  1. To find the download link, navigate to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/gp

  2. Click on Downloads from the landing page, which is shown in the following screenshot:

  3. On the Microsoft Dynamics GP page that opens, click on the Software Development Kits (SDKs) link.

  4. On the Software Development Kits page that opens, scroll down and click on the Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 SDK link...