Quick Tip: Passing Parameters to Background Processes in Dexterity

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

A couple months ago there was a post on the Partner Forum about Dexterity Oddities. One of the points raised in the post was about passing a text datatype parameter to a procedure called in the background and the fact that the contents of the text variable are lost. The same code called in the foreground works.

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Quick Tip: Updating Dexterity customizations to work with Security Tasks and Security Roles

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Another Quick Tip for Dexterity developers. This one discusses what changes need to be made to an integrating Dexterity application when upgrading from pre version 10.0 code to version 10.0 or GP 2010 to handle the changes in the security model.

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Quick Tip: Best Practice for Dexterity Version and Build Numbers

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

A common question that new Dexterity developers have is what should they use for the version and build numbers when creating a chunk dictionary for distribution. This post discusses how those numbers are used and what the best practice for setting their values is.

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Quick Tip: Creating Dexterity System Variables

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

Hi everyone.

This is another Quick Tip post for Dexterity developers. Vaidy’s recent post: “Illegal Address Field” Error while accessing a Global, raised the issue and so I thought I would respond with an explanation.

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Writing to An Event Log in a Visual Studio Tools Customization

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

So you are writing your top notch, one-of-a-kind Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP customization.

You’ve covered all the bases for any potential errors and just in case you miss any and an exception is thrown, you are catching the exception to write into an event log.

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Quick Tip: Changing Dexterity Script Debugger Context

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

This post is the first of a new style of blog post.  The idea is to publish the response to a question that I have been asked as a “Quick Tip” so that others can benefit from the information.  Over time we should end up with a few real gems of information… You never know, I could present 50 of them in a 50 minute session at a conference…. No wait … Mark already did that.

How can I change the Script Debugger Context to work on my dictionary?

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Microsoft Visual Studio Tools window does not open

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

This week an ISV logged a support incident to determine why their Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP (VSTools) form wouldn’t open.  The customization worked fine on the developer’s machine (of course) but didn’t work when deploying it to the customer site.

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Running dag.exe on 9.0 Dynamics forms dictionary fails with runtime error at 86% complete

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

A few months ago, a partner was attempting to create an Application.Dynamics.ModifiedForms.dll using the Dictionary Application Generator (dag.exe) against his 9.0 SP4 Dynamics forms dictionary.

This failed for him.  Trying to determine if it was a “forms dictionary issue” or not, he renamed his Application.Dynamics.dll as a test and attempted to generate a new one using Dag.exe.  This also failed in the same manner but at a different spot.

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Getting Started with Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP

David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is a reposting of an article I originally wrote on my Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

The Dynamics GP Blogster, Mariano Gomez, has begun an awesome series of posts about how a Dexterity developer can get started using Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

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