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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

Vendor Quick Entry project


Your first VS Tools project will be to create a new window that you can use to quickly set up a new vendor. The window will include a much smaller number of fields than the regular Vendor Maintenance window. This project will show you how to create a WinForm and add controls to the new form. At the end of the project, your new window will look similar to the window shown in the following screenshot:

Creating the new project

Launch Visual Studio and click either the New Project link or select File | New | Project from the menu bar. Use the following steps to create your new project:

  1. In the New Project window, set the .NET framework version drop-down menu to .NET Framework 4.

  2. Expand the Visual C# option in the Installed Templates section.

  3. Select the Dynamics GP template. If the Dynamics GP template does not appear in your list of installed templates, it means VS Tools did not get installed properly. Reinstall the templates and try again.

  4. Name the project Vendor_Quick_Entry...