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Dynamics GP Developer Insights: .NET Interop

Alice Newsam - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Alice Newsam originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Hello, my name is Alice Newsam and I am software engineer on the Dynamics GP team focusing on Dexterity and I have a question for you:

Have you ever thought to yourself while working in Dexterity “I know there’s a .NET class that does this. It would be handy to access that right about now.” or “If only I could increase the string size to hold that data.”?

Well read on because you’ll be excited to learn about a feature that the GP Development team is currently working on for the GP 2015 release: .NET Interop.

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Dynamics GP Developer Insights: Web Client Window Ribbon – Part 2

Rushi Patel - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Rushi Patel originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Hey, I am Rushi Patel. I am a software developer working on the Microsoft Dynamics GP team in Fargo the last 3 years. I like to spend my time with my family, watching movies and cricket.

At Microsoft, I have worked on Office Accounting and Dynamics GP Workflow prior to my current project – the GP web client. I mostly worked on the UI features of web client before I started working on the Window Ribbon feature. Window Ribbons, as the name implies, appears to be a purely UI concept. That’s true, however there are many dependencies to make Window Ribbons render on web client such as sanScript code and Dexterity support/enhancements that will be explained in depth in this series of articles.

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Dynamics GP Developer Insights: Web Client Window Ribbon – Part 1

Rushi Patel - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Rushi Patel originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Hey, I am Rushi Patel. I am a software developer working on the Microsoft Dynamics GP team in Fargo the last 3 years. I like to spend my time with my family, watching movies and cricket.

At Microsoft, I have worked on Office Accounting and Dynamics GP Workflow prior to my current project – the GP web client. I mostly worked on the UI features of web client before I started working on the Window Ribbon feature. Window Ribbons, as the name implies, appears to be a purely UI concept. That’s true, however there are many dependencies to make Window Ribbons render on web client such as sanScript code and Dexterity support/enhancements that will be explained in depth in this series of articles.

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Dynamics GP Developer Insights: GUI Independent Window Object Model

Chris Rudolph - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Chris Rudolph originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Hello, my name is Chris Rudolph.  I have been working as a software engineer on the Dynamics GP team here in Fargo since the summer of 2008.  I like to spend my time hanging out with my wife (we just started disc golf!) and playing the cello.

So far at Microsoft I have worked on a variety of projects including the WCF conversion and install for GP Web Services 2010, the Workflow install, SRS reports, Analysis Cubes for AA, and now the web client.  My web client work has been primarily in the depths of the Dexterity runtime and the ‘interop’ layer it uses to communicate with the .NET world.

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Dynamics GP Developer Insights: The Evolution of the Silverlight PushButton

Kurt Larson - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Kurt Larson originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Hi, I’m Kurt Larson, a software development engineer on Dynamics GP. Despite my friends’ dire warnings I moved to Fargo a couple years ago to work for Microsoft and haven’t regretted it for a second. (I like to stay inside most of the time anyways to play Guitar Hero and tabletop games.)

At Microsoft I’ve worked on SRS reports, SRS deployment, and Business Portal virtual lists, and now I’m excited to be on the GP web client – this article explains some of the work that’s gone into the web client UI and what we’ve learned about Silverlight along the way.

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Dynamics GP Developer Insights: Introduction

Brian Roney - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article Brian Roney originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Hi, I am Brian Roney, a software development lead on Microsoft Dynamics GP.  I have been working on the GP product since 1996 when I was an intern at Great Plains Software. I have mainly focused my development in the system area of GP.  Currently I am helping lead the development activities of the Web Client project. Outside of Microsoft I have 2 daughters, ages 5 and 1, that keep me busy riding bikes, swimming, coloring and building sandcastles.  I also enjoy watching American football (Go Packers!!), fishing, archery and hanging out at the lake and campfires with family and friends.

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