David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis article covers how to uninstall Winthrop Products and also how to remove previous versions showing in Programs and Features in the Control Panel.

Winthrop Products use a two-step uninstall process and will not uninstall from the Programs and Features applet in the Control Panel until they have first been uninstalled from the Microsoft Dynamics GP application. This allows the products to clean up all the settings, tables and other SQL objects from the SQL Server as well as removing themselves from the application installation before the files are removed by uninstalling from the control panel.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe latest and greatest version of Microsoft Dynamics GP has been released, and it contains a number of new features and bug fixes.

Winthrop Development Consultants has already updated its products for this Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.6 – October 2023 release. They are now built against the final build and so are no longer beta builds.

Check out the previous article for more information:

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWe 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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David Meego - Click for blog homepageToday, 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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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAs 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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David Meego - Click for blog homepageSome more great news after the release of new builds of our products.

This 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 18.6 (October 2023) release. This download is provided to the ISV community to help them prepare for the final code when it is released.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWith the release of GP Power Tools Build 30 combined with the release of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit Build 18 and its Custom Forms Module, GP Power Tools gains the ability to create new windows.

GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module is extremely powerful with its triggering and scripting capabilities using the Dexterity sanScript, SQL Server Transact-SQL, C# and VB.Net languages and over 100 helper functions, but has always lacked the ability to create new windows.

Until now …

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThe release of Build 18 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit fulfills a long-term plan to add advanced modules to the product that extend its functionality beyond the original menu navigation that was offered by its predecessor, Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP.

The last big jump in functionality happened with Build 15 when support for Area Pages was added to the Menus module, and over 260 Helper Functions exposing “Dexterity only” functionality to Visual Studio Tools developers was added to the Helpers module.

Build 18 adds an advanced Custom Forms module which allows Visual Studio Tools developers to create their own Dexterity custom windows. These custom forms have the advantage over WinForms as they will work on the Web Client and all other Microsoft Dynamics GP features.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis article should help clarify which old builds are discontinued, what this means, and why the builds are discontinued anyway.

With the release of GP Power Tools Build 32, Batch Posting Service Toolkit Build 15 and Visual Studio Integration Toolkit Build 20, we announced that at the end of August 2025 we will be discontinuing old builds released before August 2023.

This is not discontinuing products, we are fully committed to Microsoft Dynamics GP and continuing our products and product development on the platform and have since released new builds of all products.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 18 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 21-Aug-2023.

This build includes an entire new Custom Forms module along with a number of enhancements as well as improvements to the registration and installer systems. The User Guide Manual has now grown to 90 pages, plus their code examples and sample project also provided.

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