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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

Using the SDK


The SDK makes it very easy to determine those, if any, Dynamics GP objects that changed from release to release. One of the steps included in setting up your Dexterity development environment was installing Dynamics GP SDK (Chapter3, Getting started with Dexterity). It's time to go over some of the goodies in Dynamics GP SDK that will help you move through the upgrade process.

Launch Dynamics GP SDK using the Start button. If you accepted the default locations during installation, the Dynamics GP SDK selection will be within the Microsoft Dynamics folder in the Start menu.

If it isn't in the Start menu (and you accepted the defaults), double-click on the following file to open it:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics\GP 11.0 SDK\DynamicsGP_SDK.chm

The opening screen of Dynamics GP SDK looks like the following screenshot:

From the preceding screenshot, click on the Dictionary Changes for Microsoft Dynamics GP item. In the screen that opens, you'll find links to information...