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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

Overview of the development process


Developing an integrating application using Dexterity involves several steps. This section will provide an overview of those steps.

Installing the software

The first step in the development process seems somewhat obvious, but there are several items involved. The first step is to install the software that you'll use to create your customization. The software you will install to develop an integrated application using Dexterity includes the following:

  • Dynamics GP

  • Dexterity

  • Dynamics GP Software Development Kit

  • DexSense

  • Support Debugging Tool

Preparing your development environment

After you install the software, you need to prepare your development environment. Preparing the development environment involves the following steps:

  • Creating a folder in which to develop your application

  • Making a copy of the Dynamics.dic file from your production environment and copying it to your development folder

  • Renaming the development copy of the Dynamics.dic file to something appropriate...