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Installation Failing with ANSI_WARNINGS and CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL Errors

Feb 9, 2024 Tagged with Application, Batch Posting Service Toolkit, BPST, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, we had an unusual support case: upgrading two of our products, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit and GP Power Tools, was failing with a SQL Server error I had never seen before.

The errors only occurred on the customer’s live system, but the install worked fine on their development system. Eventually the cause for the issue was identified.

Today, my good friend Beat Bucher, had the same error and I was able to tell him the cause straight away. Read on for a full explanation.

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Registration Expired or Failed Dialog shown when launching Microsoft Dynamics GP

Jan 31, 2024 Tagged with Application, Batch Posting Service Toolkit, BPST, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

We are currently seeing an increase in customer sites reporting the Registration Expired or Failed dialog when launching Microsoft Dynamics GP.

This dialog is to notify users that a Winthrop Development Consultants product is no longer registered and action needs to be taken by the system administrator to fix the subscription and restore the product’s functionality.

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#VSIT Visual Studio Integration Toolkit build 19.1 released

Jan 19, 2024 Tagged with News, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 19 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 19-Jan-2024.

This build includes enhancements to the new Custom Forms module along with improvements to the installer systems. The User Guide Manual has now grown to 95 pages, plus their code examples and sample project also provided.

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Uninstalling Winthrop Products and Removing previous versions from Programs and Features

Jan 10, 2024 Tagged with Batch Posting Service Toolkit, BPST, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

This article covers how to uninstall Winthrop Products and also how to remove previous versions showing in Programs and Features in the Control Panel.

Winthrop Products use a two-step uninstall process and will not uninstall from the Programs and Features applet in the Control Panel until they have first been uninstalled from the Microsoft Dynamics GP application. This allows the products to clean up all the settings, tables and other SQL objects from the SQL Server as well as removing themselves from the application installation before the files are removed by uninstalling from the control panel.

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#MSDynGP Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.6 – October 2023 has released

Oct 3, 2023 Tagged with Batch Posting Service Toolkit, BPST, Community Summit 2023, Conference, GP Power Tools, GPPT, GPUG, Training, User Group Summit North America, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

The latest and greatest version of Microsoft Dynamics GP has been released, and it contains a number of new features and bug fixes.

Winthrop Development Consultants has already updated its products for this Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.6 – October 2023 release. They are now built against the final build and so are no longer beta builds.

Check out the previous article for more information:

#MSDynGP Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.6 ISV Pre-release installers now available

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#GPPT Best Practices for Developing with GP Power Tools

Sep 21, 2023 Tagged with Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

We are seeing more and more sites realizing the potential of using GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module as their platform for custom development for customizations, tweaking and fixing behavior of code within Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Many customers are using GP Power Tools (GPPT) to replace their unsupported Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) customizations, which is great as GPPT is the best solution for replacing VBA, Dexterity and Visual Studio Tools addins. It offers many benefits over other development tools.

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Installer Error: Microsoft Dynamics GP Process Monitor (DPM.exe)

Sep 14, 2023 Tagged with Batch Posting Service Toolkit, BPST, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

Today, 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 Monitor (DPM.exe) is currently running, please exit the application and click Retry or click Cancel to exit the installer.

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#MySummitNA Winthrop Development Consultants at Community Summit Charlotte 2023

Sep 13, 2023 Tagged with Community Summit 2023, Conference, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, GPUG, Training No Comments

In just over three weeks my wife, Jennifer, and I will be flying from Perth via Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth to Charlotte, North Carolina, USA for two weeks at the Community Summit 2023 conference.

During the first week (Monday 9^th to Friday 13^th October 2023), I will be running Dexterity Fundamentals training at the JW Marriott hotel. Then on Sunday 15^th October, I will be running Academy training for GP Power Tools.

Once the conference starts, please come see us at Expo Booth 718. Read on for more information on the two training classes and seven sessions I am presenting.

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#GPPT #VSIT Using a ListView to display data with a Custom Form

Sep 6, 2023 Tagged with Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

As mentioned in my recent article, it is possible to add a ListView to a window using Modifier along with a hack. So today we are going to show how to use a ListView to display multiple records of data.

This is a practical example which works with Sales Transaction Entry (SOP_Entry) and shows the stock levels at each inventory site that has stock for the selected item on the window.

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#MSDynGP Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.6 ISV Pre-release installers now available

Aug 31, 2023 Tagged with Application, Batch Posting Service Toolkit, BPST, Dynamics GP, GP Power Tools, GPPT, News, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit, VSIT No Comments

Some more great news after the release of new builds of our products.

This morning (Perth Time) I had an email from Terry Heley from Microsoft with a link to a pre-release (ISV Drop) of the upcoming Microsoft Dynamics GP version 18.6 (October 2023) release. This download is provided to the ISV community to help them prepare for the final code when it is released.