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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

Summary


This chapter took you through the process of completing and deploying your Dexterity application. Starting with the system requirements, you explored the importance of versions and builds, and how they are created. You looked at three different methods for creating the SQL tables that you defined for your application.

With your table creation procedures in place, it was time to extract your application from the development dictionary. With chunk in hand, you started down the long road of testing and debugging. To your delight, you learned about the new testing framework available to help you test in a controlled environment!

We talked about distributing your completed application using just the chunk file, or creating an installer for it. You have new tools in your toolkit to help you deploy your application, such as a completion checklist and some white paper articles. We'll be leaving Dexterity now and switching over to using Modifier with VBA to create customizations.