Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 21 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 21-Apr-2026.
This build includes minor fixes and support for the subscription model changes coming in 2027.
Winthrop Development Consultants is fully committed to the continued support of Microsoft Dynamics GP and its ecosystem. Our ISV products are only compatible with Dynamics GP and have been created to solve pain points and missing features as requested by the GP community.
While Microsoft has stated that they will cease support for Dynamics GP in 2031, it is important to note that “End of Support” does not equate to “End of Life”. There is plenty of life left in the product and, with the support of the community, GP will live on well past the official end of support. A driving force in the community support will be the Knights of GP.
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.
Community Summit 2026 will be held at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tennessee, USA from 11th October 2026 to 15th October 2026. I am again planning to offer Microsoft Dynamics GP Development Training during the week before the conference. Please respond to the survey below to register your interest and preference for what training class should be run.
Update: The 5 day Dexterity I course and the 1 day GP Power Tools workshop have been selected.
As much as I love and use Microsoft Products, they sometimes make bad decisions or introduce very annoying bugs. This article addresses a bug introduced on 16-Dec-2025 in Microsoft Outlook Version 2512 (Build 19530.20038 Click-to-Run) Current Channel.
The issue is that email signatures using a table will now have the border showing by default regardless of whether it was showing before the update.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and very Happy New Year.
2025 has been another successful year. The community is coming to grips with Microsoft discontinuing support for Microsoft Dynamics GP but also working on initiatives such as the “Knights of GP” (a co-operative of customers, consultants, ISVs and partners who are planning to maintain GP after Microsoft).
At Winthrop Development Consultants, we spent many hours in development of our products including the GP Power Tools Build 32 release, which included many new features and enhancements across all the modules.
I am finally getting back to work after travelling and presenting at Community Summit 2025 in Orlando and visiting family in the UK. Still got lots of tasks to catch up on but I wanted to write about the Knights of GP.
The Knights of GP is planned to be a community based co-op of customers, consultants, Independent Software Developers (ISVs) and partners who will work together after Microsoft stops supporting Microsoft Dynamics GP to allow the product to remain supported by the community who use and love it. Join us for the tomorrow’s Fireside Chat…
This is an article I wrote for the recently released Fido magazine. The magazine was published in time for Community Summit 2025 in Orlando by Fidesic, who offer Payables Automation solutions for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Go visit them at booth 1545 for the full magazine.
Thanks to Carl Robinette from Fidesic who reached out and offered the opportunity to write an article for the magazine, and to my wife, Jennifer, who helped me with multiple rewrites. 🙂
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Good News for the Microsoft Dynamics GP Community.
Friday 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 18.8 (October 2025) release. This download is provided to the ISV community to help them prepare for the final code when it is released.
As of January 2026, Winthrop Development Consultants will be changing our product pricing to reflect the increases in functionality and features. It has been three years since the last time our pricing changed, and the world economy has also changed significantly in that time.
We have released multiple builds of all of our products in the last three years and will continue to support and develop our products moving forward.
Attention all Microsoft Dynamics GP Customers.
With the End of Support for Dynamics GP by 2031, existing GP customers need to plan what they want to do moving into the future. Should they stay with Dynamics GP? Should they implement a new Microsoft ERP? Should they implement an ERP from another company?
Dynamics Communities have joined with community members to present a free five week Dynamics GP Strategic Planning Digital Summit.
Winthrop Development Consultants is extremely excited to announce that Build 32 of GP Power Tools (GPPT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 20-Jun-2025, with a minor fix released 22-Jun-2025*.
This amazing build includes new features for every module in GP Power Tools. The build also includes many enhancements and improvements to existing functionality across the entire product.
This article lists the major new features and enhancements. It won’t list everything but to give you an idea of how much has been added, the user guide manual has grown from 833 pages in build 31 to 882 pages in build 32.
Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 15 of Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 20-Jun-2025.
This build adds the ability to post Computer Payments/Checks/Cheques batches that are ready to be posted. There are also enhancements to the table update processing and general maintenance fixes.
Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 20 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 20-Jun-2025.
This build includes enhancements to the table update processing and general maintenance fixes.
Winthrop Development Consultants is taking part in the upcoming GP Demo Day by The ISV Society on 28th May 2025 at 1:00pm (US Eastern Time).
Join us and see how the new GP Power Tools Form Control module helps you adapt Microsoft Dynamics GP to your exact business needs—with little to no code.
Update now to the latest builds for your version of Microsoft Dynamics GP.
This article provides advanced warning that old builds of Winthrop Development Consultants products for versions GP 18.0. or later will be discontinued at the end of August 2025 and will no longer be able to renew their subscriptions.
It is vital the customers update their installs of our products to get all the new fixes, features and enhancements that their annual subscription entitles them to.
Today, I received an email from Terry Heley of Microsoft confirming that the End of Support date for Microsoft Dynamics GP has been extended by 3 months from 30th September 2029 to 31st December 2029.
This extension enables the Microsoft Dynamics GP development and support teams to release an End of Year (EOY) update to meet any of the payroll and tax requirements to complete the year.
Read on for more details and links …
Happy New Year.
I would not normally publish an article where I reference a specific company, but the behavior of this company, while not necessarily illegal, is deceptive and morally wrong.
A recent video expose by the YouTube Channel: MegaLag has highlighted how the Honey free browser extension works and what it is really doing behind the scenes.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and very Happy New Year.
2024 has been a successful, but challenging year. Here at Winthrop Development Consultants, we spent 6 months working hard and finally creating the dream of “No Code/Low Code” customization across the entire Microsoft Dynamics GP product, as well as Virtual Fields.
The result was GP Power Tools Build 31 including the new Form Control module which was released in August. Then, just one month later Microsoft announced the End of Support dates for Dynamics GP.
For many years the Microsoft Dynamics GP Community Forum was one of the best places to get help and discuss all things relating to our wonderful Microsoft Dynamics GP / Great Plains product.
That was until 08-Nov-2024 when Microsoft, in its wisdom, consolidated the forums and combined the Microsoft Dynamics GP forum with the Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Dynamics 365 forums into a single forum, the Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, AX, GP, SL Community Forum.