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#VSIT Visual Studio Integration Toolkit Subscription Changes for 2027

Mar 30, 2026 Tagged with Development, Menus for Visual Studio Tools, MVST, News, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT 2 Comments

Visual 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.

Conference, GP Power Tools, GPUG, Products, Training

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

Mar 27, 2026 Tagged with Community Summit 2024, Conference, GP Power Tools, GPPT, GPUG, Training No Comments

Want 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.

Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Adding 6 Additional Item Category Fields Version 2

Mar 5, 2026 Tagged with Application, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

Here is an awesome update to the previous sample customization which added 6 Additional Item Category Fields:

#GPPT Adding 6 Additional Item Category Fields

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

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.
Updating the Report Writer functions with the faster memory-based parameters options.
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.

Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

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

Dec 19, 2025 Tagged with Application, GP Power Tools, GPPT, SQL No Comments

Over 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.

Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

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

Dec 17, 2025 Tagged with Application, GP Power Tools, GPPT, SQL No Comments

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.

Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

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

Dec 15, 2025 Tagged with Application, GP Power Tools, GPPT, SQL No Comments

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.

GP Power Tools, Products

#GPPT GP Power Tools Build 32.2 hotfix released

Dec 2, 2025 Tagged with GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

Build 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.

Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, Products, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit

#GPPT Implementing Custom Forms using GP Power Tools 2

Oct 13, 2025 Tagged with Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

When 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.

#GPPT Implementing Custom Forms using GP Power Tools

Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Update: Using Custom Tables

Oct 8, 2025 Tagged with Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, SQL No Comments

Welcome to the eleventh article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.

The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Introduction

In this article we will show how to use Custom Tables (added in Build 32) to store data rather than the DUOS table. In the previous articles we included the Customization Maintenance packages and showed how to use manual SQL tables.

Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Update: Using manual SQL tables

Oct 6, 2025 Tagged with Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, SQL No Comments

Welcome to the tenth article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.

The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Introduction

In this article we will show how to use manual SQL tables to store data rather than the DUOS table. In the previous article we included the Customization Maintenance packages. In the following article we will show how to use GPPT Custom Tables (even better than manual SQL tables).