David Meego - Click for blog homepageAs of January 2026, Winthrop Development Consultants will be changing our product pricing to reflect the increases in functionality and features. It has been three years since the last time our pricing changed, and the world economy has also changed significantly in that time.

We have released multiple builds of all of our products in the last three years and will continue to support and develop our products moving forward.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is another update to the previous version of the change tracking project for Item cards:

Based on the version 3 project, this update for GP Power Tools Build 32 changes the project to use a Custom Table and Custom Table Buffer calls rather than SQL Scripts and Parameter Lists. So, it does require Build 32 or later to work.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is another update to the previous versions of the change tracking projects for Customer and Vendor cards:

Based on the version 4 projects, this update for GP Power Tools Build 32 changes the project to use a Custom Table and Custom Table Buffer calls rather than SQL Scripts and Parameter Lists. So, it does require Build 32 or later to work.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is extremely excited to announce that Build 32 of GP Power Tools (GPPT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 20-Jun-2025, with a minor fix released 22-Jun-2025*.

This amazing build includes new features for every module in GP Power Tools. The build also includes many enhancements and improvements to existing functionality across the entire product.

This article lists the major new features and enhancements. It won’t list everything but to give you an idea of how much has been added, the user guide manual has grown from 833 pages in build 31 to 882 pages in build 32.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 15 of Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 20-Jun-2025.

This build adds the ability to post Computer Payments/Checks/Cheques batches that are ready to be posted. There are also enhancements to the table update processing and general maintenance fixes.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageToday, we have an interesting support case where the installer for a Winthrop Development Consultants product failed to complete with the following error message:

  • A version of Microsoft Dynamics GP Process Server (DPS.exe) is currently running, please exit the application and click Retry or click Cancel to exit the installer.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThanks to Noah Moseley for inviting me to be part of his Presenter Spotlights Podcast series.

We had a fun time discussing many topics including Microsoft Dynamics GP development and customization, the End of Support announcement, the training and sessions I will be presenting at Community Summit 2025, and finally Australian chocolates, Tim Tams and Vegemite!

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is taking part in the upcoming GP Demo Day by The ISV Society on 28th May 2025 at 1:00pm (US Eastern Time).

Join us and see how the new GP Power Tools Form Control module helps you adapt Microsoft Dynamics GP to your exact business needs—with little to no code.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWant to learn how to get the most out of GP Power Tools? Discover all the benefits 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 Orlando, Florida, USA.

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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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David Meego - Click for blog homepageUpdate now to the latest builds for your version of Microsoft Dynamics GP.

This article provides advanced warning that old builds of Winthrop Development Consultants products for versions GP 18.0. or later will be discontinued at the end of August 2025 and will no longer be able to renew their subscriptions.

It is vital the customers update their installs of our products to get all the new fixes, features and enhancements that their annual subscription entitles them to.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWith the release of GP Power Tools Build 31 including the new “No Code/Low Code” Customization Form Control Module, Winthrop Development Consultants are offering a discount on the annual subscription fees to all customers who have the entire suite of modules.

Now is the time to ensure that you are running the latest build of GP Power Tools on your system AND ensure your subscription includes all the modules available.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageI have been meaning to write this article for quite a while. The Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) is a product created by Winthrop Development Consultants to provide a variety of methods for posting, maintaining, transferring batches, etc.

The API’s (Application Programming Interface) can be called externally as a Service Based Architecture (SBA) Web Service (for GP 2015 or later), or from inside the Microsoft Dynamics GP application using Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools (via C# or VB.Net) or via GP Power Tools.

The Batch Posting Service Toolkit is exactly that, a toolkit designed to be called by a developer and so it does not have an interface (except for testing the API). However, you can use the Scheduling functionality in GP Power Tools to post batches on a scheduled basis, read on for more details ….

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageScheduling or automating tasks in Microsoft Dynamics GP is a common request, so this example demonstrates a method that can be used to run any process on a scheduled or automated basis using GP Power Tools.

The specific example we will be using is running an Inventory Item Reconcile on items that have been flagged as needing reconciliation. This code was developed in conjunction with Arthur Achilleos, who has agreed for it to be published.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageA recent GP Power Tools customization project for Microsoft Dynamics GP which I assisted a customer to create, ensures that a GL Account Number is entered on each line of a Purchase Order Transaction.

The customer for which this project created for has allowed it to be published on the blog to benefit anyone else who would like similar functionality.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageUsing the GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module for customization is a great method of automating processes in Microsoft Dynamics GP as well as customizing behavior to meet the requirements of your business.

Many customers are also using GP Power Tools to replace Visual Basic for Applications now that it is “End of Life” and unsupported.

I was recently asked how to hide a window opened and closed as part of an automation using GP Power Tools. This article explains the techniques you can use to open a window as hidden.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageGP Power Tools build 30.2 added a feature to check the installed SQL Server version against the minimum supported version, as per the published System Requirements for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and will warn on login if the version of SQL Server does not meet the minimum system requirements.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageBuild 31.4 of GP Power Tools was released on 06-Dec-2024. This build fixes and enhances some features from the Build 31.3 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, but we have also discontinued old builds primarily because of the Security Vulnerability discovered and fixed in August 2022.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThanks to everyone who attended last week’s DynamicsCon Virtual conference. Winthrop Development Consultants was proud to be the Champion sponsor of the Dynamics GP track.

During the conference a sponsor video about the new Form Control module was broadcast. The Form Control module was added to GP Power Tools build 31 or later, available for Microsoft Dynamics GP version 18.2 (modern lifecycle) or later.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis example adds filtering on an amount and/or a document number to the Apply Sales Document window when the Find window is used. as well as sorting the documents by date. The additional functionality can make it much quicker to find the correct document for a payment to be applied to, by its amount or by any part of its document number.

This customization also demonstrates some very useful techniques including:

  • using Virtual Fields instead of Modifier to add the extra fields we need,
  • using Triggers to capture a table reference to a temporary table,
  • applying a where clause to that temporary table,
  • using a where clause that involves more than one table,
  • adding virtual keys to the temporary table,
  • and manipulating the contents of the temporary table.

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