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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

Dynamics GP 2013 consideration


Your VS Tools customizations will work just as they always have using the Dynamics GP 2013 rich client. Rich client implies the regular Dexterity written workstation installation that you use today. Using the Web Client is a different matter. The Web Client is a ground-breaking achievement for Dynamics GP and one that has long been anticipated, but it comes at a price. Any user interface that you created using WinForms will not work with the Web Client. The screen modifications you have made using Modifier work just fine, but the WinForm events will not fire when using the Web Client.

Your code will work just fine, but you need to rework your interface and register your events against a window created with Dexterity. You have two choices here. You can use Modifier and make changes to existing windows, or you can learn Dexterity and build your own windows using its graphical forms designer. You'll find the graphical forms designer feature easy to use, and making...