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#GPPT Adding Custom Fields to Microsoft Dynamics GP without using Code or Modifier part 1

David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows.  It is possible to add extra fields but there have always been compromises. Either it requires custom development with scripting and modified or alternate windows, or fields are in a separate window or sidebar, and the data is often stored in multiple records across multiple tables.

This year, as we celebrate 20 years of GP Power Tools, the upcoming Build 33 adds Custom Fields. This amazing new feature allows you to add almost any field to any window without any code or using Modifier.

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#VSIT Visual Studio Integration Toolkit build 21.1 released

David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 21 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 21-Apr-2026.

This build includes minor fixes and support for the subscription model changes coming in 2027.

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#GPPT GP Power Tools Build 33 Sneak Peek Login MFA and SSO for Dynamics GP

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis year GP Power Tools turns 20 years’ old, and we will celebrate by releasing Build 33 with many enhancements and new features and some fixes. The release of GP Power Tools Build 33 for Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.4 or later is planned for mid-year, once all the development and documentation is completed.

We are excited to tell you about one of the major new features … Login Control.

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#MSDynGP The Knights of GP – Commitment beyond 2031

David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is fully committed to the continued support of Microsoft Dynamics GP and its ecosystem. Our ISV products are only compatible with Dynamics GP and have been created to solve pain points and missing features as requested by the GP community.

While Microsoft has stated that they will cease support for Dynamics GP in 2031, it is important to note that “End of Support” does not equate to “End of Life”. There is plenty of life left in the product and, with the support of the community, GP will live on well past the official end of support. A driving force in the community support will be the Knights of GP.

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#VSIT Visual Studio Integration Toolkit Subscription Changes for 2027

David Meego - Click for blog homepageVisual Studio Integration Toolkit provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP developers adding functionality that is normally only available to Dexterity developers.

For almost 20 years the application menus feature has been available at no charge as Menus for Visual Studio Tools from Microsoft and later Visual Studio Integration Toolkit from Winthrop Development Consultants. This was David Musgrave’s gift to the Microsoft Dynamics GP community. Sadly, as the cost of maintaining and supporting the product increases, it has become necessary to charge a small fee for subscriptions starting in 2027.

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#GPPT GP Power Tools Training at Community Summit 2026 in Nashville, TN, USA

David Meego - Click for blog homepageWant to learn how to get the most out of GP Power Tools? Discover all the benefits of each module and how you can employ them in your systems? GP Power Tools is the ultimate suite of tools to get the most out of your Microsoft Dynamics GP system, regardless if you are a user, a system admin, a consultant, a developer or a database administrator.

I am pleased to announce that as well as the Dexterity Training (during the week before the conference), there will also be GP Power Tools training offered at Academy at Summit in the days before Community Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

There is always lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release the latest builds of GP Power Tools. It has features that will benefit all users of GP regardless of the level of the technical experience.

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#Dexterity Announcing Dexterity Training before Community Summit 2026 in Nashville, TN, USA

David Meego - Click for blog homepageDo you want to customize Microsoft Dynamics GP or have customizations that you want to support into the future? Now is your chance for both customers and partners to get trained in Dexterity, the development environment that Dynamics GP is built on.

Understanding Dexterity will help any developer working with Dynamics GP regardless of the development environment they end up using. This knowledge is vital for developers using Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools (C# or VB.Net), “End of Life” Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or using the GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module.

I will be running the 5-day Dexterity Fundamentals for Dynamics GP bootcamp training class in the week before the Community Summit conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA in October. Please register for the training now and plan to be in Nashville for the week before the conference.

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#MSDynGP Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.7 Document Attach Fix Creates Data Issue

David Meego - Click for blog homepageRecently, Mike from Thybar Corporation contacted me about an issue he was seeing in Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.7 with General Journal document attachments.

Journal Entry attachments that had been added before upgrading Microsoft Dynamics GP to v18.7 could no longer be viewed from the Journal Entry Inquiry window after the upgrade.

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Temp Table Errors – An open operation on table ‘MBS_sySecurityView’ failed because the path does not exist

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis article is an update to previous articles about errors on temporary tables when using Microsoft Dynamics GP. We have seen a recent increase in issues of this type as well as a misunderstanding of what is happening to cause the issues.

The issue shows as a dialog with a message like:

An open operation on table ‘MBS_sySecurityView’ failed because the path does not exist
An open operation on table ‘WDC_Field_Security_Tag_TEMP’ failed because the path does not exist
An open operation on table ‘IV_Reconcile_PO_TEMP’ has an incorrect record length.

The name of the table can vary but the examples above include a couple of common ones from products I created, being GP Power Tools and Field Level Security (Advanced Security). However, this issue is due to the Windows environment and has nothing to do with the Dexterity product or SQL Server.

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#GPPT Adding 6 Additional Item Category Fields Version 2

David Meego - Click for blog homepageHere is an awesome update to the previous sample customization which added 6 Additional Item Category Fields:

This update makes the following improvements, but does need at least Build 32 of GP Power Tools to work:

  1. Replacing the data storage location with GPPT Custom SQL Tables instead of the DUOS (Dynamic User Object Store) table, including providing a script to move any existing DUOS data to the new tables.
  2. Updating the Report Writer functions with the faster memory-based parameters options.
  3. Adding the 6 additional Item Category fields to the Item Class Setup window, including pulling the fields when a class is added and roll down class level changes.

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#MySummitNA Community Summit 2026 GP Development Training Survey

David Meego - Click for blog homepageCommunity Summit 2026 will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tennessee, USA from 11th October 2026 to 15th October 2026. I am again planning to offer Microsoft Dynamics GP Development Training during the week before the conference. Please respond to the survey below to register your interest and preference for what training class should be run.

Update: The 5 day Dexterity I course and the 1 day GP Power Tools workshop have been selected.

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#MSOffice Hiding Email Signature Table Borders in Microsoft Outlook (Updated)

David Meego - Click for blog homepageAs much as I love and use Microsoft Products, they sometimes make bad decisions or introduce very annoying bugs. This article addresses a bug introduced on 16-Dec-2025 in Microsoft Outlook Version 2512 (Build 19530.20038 Click-to-Run) Current Channel.

The issue is that email signatures using a table will now have the border showing by default regardless of whether it was showing before the update.

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Merry Christmas 2025 and Happy New Year 2026

David Meego - Click for blog homepageWishing everyone a Merry Christmas and very Happy New Year.

2025 has been another successful year. The community is coming to grips with Microsoft discontinuing support for Microsoft Dynamics GP but also working on initiatives such as the “Knights of GP” (a co-operative of customers, consultants, ISVs and partners who are planning to maintain GP after Microsoft).

At Winthrop Development Consultants, we spent many hours in development of our products including the GP Power Tools Build 32 release, which included many new features and enhancements across all the modules.

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#GPPT #MSDynGP Making your Dynamics GP system faster and decreasing data space Part 3

David Meego - Click for blog homepageOver time the amount of data stored by your Microsoft Dynamics GP system can get quite large. Without buying new hardware, there is a simple way to make your system faster and decrease the space used to store your databases.

This is where a couple of the features of the Database Module of GP Power Tools come in to help. This is article 3 of 3 in the series.

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#GPPT #MSDynGP Making your Dynamics GP system faster and decreasing data space Part 2

David Meego - Click for blog homepageOver time the amount of data stored by your Microsoft Dynamics GP system can get quite large. Without buying new hardware, there is a simple way to make your system faster and decrease the space used to store your databases.

This is where a couple of the features of the Database Module of GP Power Tools come in to help. This is article 2 of 3 in the series.

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#GPPT #MSDynGP Making your Dynamics GP system faster and decreasing data space Part 1

David Meego - Click for blog homepageOver time the amount of data stored by your Microsoft Dynamics GP system can get quite large. Without buying new hardware, there is a simple way to make your system faster and decrease the space used to store your databases.

This is where a couple of the features of the Database Module of GP Power Tools come in to help. This is article 1 of 3 in the series.

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#GPPT GP Power Tools Build 32.2 hotfix released

David Meego - Click for blog homepageBuild 32.2 of GP Power Tools was released on 02-Dec-2025. This build consolidates fixes and enhances some features from the Build 32.1 release.

We strongly encourage all our customers to stay updated with the latest builds of our products for their version of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes that their subscription entitles them to.

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#MSDynGP The Knights of GP – Join the Fireside Chat

David Meego - Click for blog homepageI am finally getting back to work after travelling and presenting at Community Summit 2025 in Orlando and visiting family in the UK. Still got lots of tasks to catch up on but I wanted to write about the Knights of GP.

The Knights of GP is planned to be a community based co-op of customers, consultants, Independent Software Developers (ISVs) and partners who will work together after Microsoft stops supporting Microsoft Dynamics GP to allow the product to remain supported by the community who use and love it. Join us for the tomorrow’s Fireside Chat…

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#MSDynGP Support for Microsoft Dynamics GP is Ending – What now?

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is an article I wrote for the recently released Fido magazine. The magazine was published in time for Community Summit 2025 in Orlando by Fidesic, who offer Payables Automation solutions for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Go visit them at booth 1545 for the full magazine.

Thanks to Carl Robinette from Fidesic who reached out and offered the opportunity to write an article for the magazine, and to my wife, Jennifer, who helped me with multiple rewrites. 🙂
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#GPPT Implementing Custom Forms using GP Power Tools 2

David Meego - Click for blog homepageWhen GP Power Tools Build 32 was released, it added powerful Custom Table functionality which allows for a developer to create a custom table definition and have that table created in each company automatically. The table can then be used in a similar fashion to a native Dexterity table using a suite of Custom Table Buffer Helper Functions.

This article updates the original article (below), which explained how to create a Custom Forms Module demonstration project, to use Custom Tables instead of SQL Tables for a much faster and simpler implementation.

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