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1 Comment Posted on 30 March 202621 April 2026 by WinthropDC Business, Development, Menus for Visual Studio Tools, News, Products, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit

#VSIT Visual Studio Integration Toolkit Subscription Changes for 2027

Visual Studio Integration Toolkit provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP developers adding functionality that is normally only available to Dexterity developers.

For almost 20 years the application menus feature has been available at no charge as Menus for Visual Studio Tools from Microsoft and later Visual Studio Integration Toolkit from Winthrop Development Consultants. This was David Musgrave’s gift to the Microsoft Dynamics GP community. Sadly, as the cost of maintaining and supporting the product increases, it has become necessary to charge a small fee for subscriptions starting in 2027.

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Leave a comment Posted on 13 October 202516 March 2026 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, GP Power Tools, Products, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit

#GPPT Implementing Custom Forms using GP Power Tools 2

When GP Power Tools Build 32 was released, it added powerful Custom Table functionality which allows for a developer to create a custom table definition and have that table created in each company automatically. The table can then be used in a similar fashion to a native Dexterity table using a suite of Custom Table Buffer Helper Functions.

This article updates the original article (below), which explained how to create a Custom Forms Module demonstration project, to use Custom Tables instead of SQL Tables for a much faster and simpler implementation.

#GPPT Implementing Custom Forms using GP Power Tools

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1 Comment Posted on 8 October 202516 March 2026 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Update: Using Custom Tables

Welcome to the eleventh article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.

The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Introduction

In this article we will show how to use Custom Tables (added in Build 32) to store data rather than the DUOS table. In the previous articles we included the Customization Maintenance packages and showed how to use manual SQL tables.

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1 Comment Posted on 6 October 202516 March 2026 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Update: Using manual SQL tables

Welcome to the tenth article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.

The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Introduction

In this article we will show how to use manual SQL tables to store data rather than the DUOS table. In the previous article we included the Customization Maintenance packages. In the following article we will show how to use GPPT Custom Tables (even better than manual SQL tables).

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2 Comments Posted on 3 October 202529 September 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Update: Including the Modified Resources

Welcome to the ninth article as an update to the series of articles that explains in detail the steps to add a user defined custom field to a window using Modifier, Report Writer and GP Power Tools to add the business logic.

The series should be read in order starting with the introduction article:

#GPPT Beginner’s Guide to Adding Custom Fields – Introduction

In this article we will provide updates to the project adding the modified window and report to the project. In the following articles we will show how to use manual SQL tables and then GPPT Custom Tables (even better than manual SQL tables).

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1 Comment Posted on 29 September 202517 March 2026 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Adding Virtual Fields to Item Maintenance Version 2

GP Power Tools Build 32 added Custom Tables as a new feature to the Developer Tools module. Custom Tables can automatically create and maintenance SQL tables in company (or system) databases as defined by the definition in the Custom Tables Setup window.

This is an updated version of the #GPPT Adding Virtual Fields to Item Maintenance project which uses a Custom Table to store the data rather than the DUOS. Easy access to the Custom Tables is provided by a series of Custom Table Buffer Helper Functions which replicate how Dexterity table buffers work.

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2 Comments Posted on 26 September 20251 October 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity

Repost: DexSense by Tim Gordon from AlphaSoft

This is a repost of an original article by Tim Gordon October 2017 that I found very useful but is no longer available online. Originally published as

https://www.alphasoft.co.za/pn/index.php/dexsense/ (broken link)

Thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine I was able to recover the last version of the article from June 2021 and am posting it here as a reference.
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Leave a comment Posted on 25 September 202524 September 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Visual Studio

Repost: Centering a Message Box on the Active Window in C# by Jason Carr

This is a repost of an original article by Jason Carr from August 2009 that I found very useful but is no longer available online. Originally published as

https://www.jasoncarr.com/technology/centering-a-message-box-on-the-active-window-in-csharp

Thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine I was able to recover the last version of the article from November 2020 and am posting it here as a reference.
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Leave a comment Posted on 23 September 202523 September 2025 by WinthropDC Conference, Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, Microsoft, Training

#Dexterity Last Chance to register for GP Dexterity Bootcamp 2025

Are you ready to take your Dynamics GP skills to the next level?

Hi, I’m David Musgrave, Managing Director at Winthrop Development Consultants from Perth, Western Australia. I’m excited to invite you to the upcoming GP Dexterity Bootcamp, happening in Orlando the week before Community Summit—from Monday 13^th to Friday 17^thOctober.

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Leave a comment Posted on 1 September 20251 September 2025 by WinthropDC Business, Conference, Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, Training

#MySummitNA Dynamic Communities Summit MVP Insights Podcast

A little while ago I recorded an MVP Insights podcast with Pam Misialek from Dynamic Communities.

We discussed the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP and the Academy training and sessions I am presenting at Community Sumit 2025 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

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Leave a comment Posted on 25 August 20258 October 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, Visual Studio Integration Toolkit

#GPPT Using .Net Math Functions from Microsoft Dynamics GP

A recent customization project I was working on using GP Power Tools required the calculation of a square root as part of some number crunching needed to work out material quantities on a Sales Order Processing transaction.

While Dexterity (the language behind Microsoft Dynamics GP) is great at accounting style mathematics (as per a standard calculator), it does not have advanced functions for powers, logs, and trigonometry (as per a scientific calculator). This means that there is no “native” method to calculate a square root.

However, Dexterity (from v14.0 onwards) has a .Net Interop which allows you to import and call .Net libraries directly from your Dexterity scripts. This example shows how to call the System.Math library as well as other advanced techniques, such as Custom Forms and Virtual Fields.

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Leave a comment Posted on 22 August 202521 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Making Tax Registration Number on Purchasing Vendor Detail Entry Required

This is the sixth article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Tax Registration Number field on the Purchase Order Entry – Purchasing Vendor Detail Entry sub window (separate form) required.

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Leave a comment Posted on 21 August 202521 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Making Salesperson ID on Sales Customer Detail Entry Required

This is the fifth article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Salesperson ID field on the Sales Transaction Entry – Sales Customer Detail Entry sub window (separate form) required.

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Leave a comment Posted on 20 August 202521 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Making Substitute Item 1 on Item Maintenance Options Required

This is the fourth article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Substitute Item 1 field on the Item Maintenance Options sub window (same form) required.

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Leave a comment Posted on 19 August 202521 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Making Tax Registration Number on Vendor Maintenance Options Required

This is the third article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Tax Registration Number field on the Vendor Maintenance Options sub window (same form) required.

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Leave a comment Posted on 18 August 202521 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Making Tax Registration Number on Customer Maintenance Options Required

This is the second article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This example uses GP Power Tools code to make the Tax Registration Number field on the Customer Maintenance Options sub window (same form) required.

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5 Comments Posted on 15 August 202514 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products

#GPPT Making Window Fields Required and Why It Does Not Always Work

This is the first post in a series of six articles discussing making additional Window Fields required and why the standard technique using Modifier does not always work.

For a field to behave as required, there are a number of different factors that must all fall into place. This article will explain the theory and what can go wrong. Links to examples with sample code will be published over the next week.

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Leave a comment Posted on 13 August 20255 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 5

This is yet another update to the previous version of the change tracking project for Item cards:

#GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 4

Based on the version 4 project, this update for GP Power Tools Build 32 or later adds support for the Accounts window. Note it does require Build 32 or later to work.

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Leave a comment Posted on 11 August 20255 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Tracking changes to Customer and Vendor Cards Version 6

This is yet another update to the previous versions of the change tracking projects for Customer and Vendor cards:

#GPPT Tracking changes to Customer and Vendor Cards Version 5

Based on the version 5 projects, this update for GP Power Tools Build 32 or later adds support for the Accounts window. Note it does require Build 32 or later to work.

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5 Comments Posted on 16 July 20255 August 2025 by WinthropDC Development, Dexterity, Dynamics, GP, GP Power Tools, Microsoft, Products, SQL Server

#GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 4

This is another update to the previous version of the change tracking project for Item cards:

#GPPT Tracking changes to Item Cards Version 3

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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