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#MySummitNA Dynamics GP Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

Sep 22, 2023 Tagged with Application, Community Summit 2023, Conference, GPUG No Comments

Microsoft Dynamics GP customers, please take this quick, anonymous Current State of Dynamics GP survey now.

For the last 25 years or so, questions have been asked about the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP. I partially based my decision to leave Winthrop Dexterity Consultants in 2000 to become a Microsoft employee because of the “imminent demise” of Dynamics GP.

Fourteen years later, when I left Microsoft and started Winthrop Development Consultants, Microsoft Dynamics GP was still well and truly alive and going strong.

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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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#GPPT Controlling Any Dialog. Automatic Email Login

Sep 20, 2023 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT No Comments

This week I was asked if GP Power Tools could automatically handle the login to email dialogs. Initially, I was thinking that this would not be possible as the login dialogs for both the Exchange Web Service and Multi Factor Authentication modes are not Dexterity based.

Then I decided to experiment with the .Net SendKeys Class using a .Net Execute script in GP Power Tools to see if the dialogs could be controlled by using code to insert keystrokes into the keyboard buffer.

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#Robotics Lego Spike Prime Robots for Rescue Line and Rescue Maze

Sep 15, 2023 Tagged with Robocup Junior, Robotics No Comments

A couple of years ago I created some videos showing how to use the Lego Spike Prime set to build robots for the Robocup Junior Australia Rescue Line and Rescue Maze challenges.

This article is just to make them easier to find from David’s Robotics Portal.

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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 Fixing the 80 character limitation for the rw_CreateSOPTrackingNumberString report writer function

Sep 12, 2023 Tagged with Application, Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Report Writer No Comments

Yesterday, I had a quick chat with one of the legends of the Microsoft Dynamics GP community as they were preparing a session for the upcoming Community Summit 2023 in Charlotte, NC, USA and hit a technical issue which is actually a limitation in Dexterity (the development tool behind Microsoft Dynamics GP).

Read on to find out who is returning to Summit this year and how GP Power Tools solved their problem with the rw_CreateSOPTrackingNumberString() report writer function.

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#Robotics Hints for creating a successful OnStage Performance Dancing Robot

Sep 11, 2023 Tagged with Robocup Junior, Robotics No Comments

Today’s article is a welcome addition to David’s Robotics Portal. It is a “brain dump” of all the hints, tricks and techniques I can think of that will help you create a successful dancing robot for the Robocup Junior Australia Onstage Performance challenge.

If you are planning to compete in this challenge, the information in this article will help you get the best performance and the most points you can.

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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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#GPPT Adding a ListView (Grid) to any window

Sep 4, 2023 Tagged with Development, GP Power Tools, GPPT, Modifier 1 Comment

Today, I was working with a customer to create a new window in their Microsoft Dynamics GP system. We were using the new Custom Forms Module added to Visual Studio Integration Toolkit Build 18 to create a blank form, which we would modify and make functional using GP Power Tools Build 30.

Using Modifier to edit the window and add the required fields was simply a matter of creating local fields of the required datatypes to match the data we wanted to display.

But then we came across an issue that almost stopped the project from proceeding…