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...