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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

Modifier with VBA


Modifier/VBA customizations can open a mixed bag of issues at upgrade time. Moreover, it's not just Dynamics GP upgrades you need to concern yourself with; issues such as intervening operating system updates can also ruin your day. For example, Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-070, originally published on December 9, 2008, addressed security holes found in Visual Basic 6 Runtime. While this critical update may have fixed the runtime vulnerabilities, it broke many a VBA customization.

This section will review some hazards that could affect your Modifier/VBA customizations.

Modifier

You can only make visual changes using the Modifier tool. You can add or remove buttons and fields, move things around, hide things, change the tab order, colors, fonts, and so on. You cannot change or attach code using only the Modifier tool (without VBA), but you can completely change the look and feel of a window.

Upgrades to Dynamics GP can change the layout and content of any window. If the changes...