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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

Distributing the completed application


You have two ways to deliver your application. They are as follows:

  • As a chunk file.

  • As a Windows Installation file.

Sending the chunk

Dexterity customizations are one of the easiest applications to deliver. A vanilla integration, as is the Customer Contacts application, requires only that you copy the .cnk file to the installation folder of Dynamics GP. It's as simple as that. Fire up Dynamics GP and your application is installed.

Windows Installer services

You can use Windows Installer services to create an installer program for your Dynamics GP integration. Any tool that will create an installation file will work fine, but a template is provided for you to use with the WiX (Windows Installer XML) toolset. WiX is a free download from http://wix.codeplex.com/.

Chapter 44 of the Dynamics GP 2010 Integration Guide contains step-by-step instructions on how you can use the sample template to create your own installer. An installation file looks so much more...