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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

Preparing the development environment


Before you start programming, you need to set up your environment. As you gain more experience working with Dexterity, you will develop your own favorite ways to do things. For now, we will create a good basic starting point. At last, you get to install the software!

We are presuming that a test installation of Dynamics GP and Microsoft SQL is already set up and running on the workstation. The test installation of Dynamics GP should not be connected to the production copy of Dynamics GP. A test company is not sufficient; the entire environment should be for testing. We will focus on installing the Dexterity program, the Dynamics GP Software Development Kit (SDK), and other software you need for establishing your development environment.

After installing the software, you'll create the development dictionary, modify the Dex.ini file, and make some necessary changes to Dynamics GP security. With the security changes made, you will make sure that you can...