Today, we have an interesting support case where the installer for a Winthrop Development Consultants product failed to complete with the following error message:
As 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.
Some 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.
With 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 …
The 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.
This 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.
Winthrop 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.
Winthrop Development Consultants was the proud sponsor of the Microsoft Dynamics GP track at the recent DynamicsCon Virtual March 2023 conference. Part of the conference sponsorship package required us to create a 60 second video advert for Winthrop Development Consultants.
Thanks to Carol Livingston from Dynamics Connections who recommended the great tool Renderforest which was used to eventually create four new videos, including two shortened one-minute versions.
Winthrop Development Consultants products are sold using an annual subscription model which means they need to have their subscription renewed and updated each year to remain functional.
This process is usually fairly smooth and transparent as long as the invoice is paid by the due date and the system is internet connected. Invoices are due one month before the expiry date so that if they are paid on time, the subscription is renewed automatically before any expiry warnings are displayed.
I am often asked to change the contact details for the registration data for our products. These contact details are used for sending emails from Winthrop Development Consultants.
Emails sent include Renewal Notices and Invoices to partners and direct customers, and update notices and newsletters to all customers (cc’d to their partners).
It is vital that the contact details use a valid (and unique) email address for each registration record. The email must be for a person or team at the registered company. Partners cannot use their email addresses for customer registrations.
Last week, Terry Heley from Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.5 Year End 2022 service pack has been released.
Since then, we have been asked numerous times if the Winthrop products are compatible with this new 18.05.1596 release. The short answer is yes.
Recently, I have been getting a lot of requests for subscription keys for Winthrop products before upgrading to new versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP.
This article will explain how Winthrop products obtain new subscription keys automatically over the internet and what the process is if a system is not internet connected.
The latest version of Microsoft Dynamics GP was released today, and it contains a number of new features and bug fixes. Winthrop Development Consultants has already updated its products for this Microsoft Dynamics GP 18.5 – October 2022 release. They are now built against the final build and so are no longer beta builds.
Check out the previous article for more information:
Fantastic News.
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 18.5 (October 2022) release. This download is provided to the ISV community to help them prepare for the final code when it is released.
It has been a long time between Newsletters, but that does not mean nothing’s been happening. On the contrary, we have been really busy working hard to improve our software products with the aim of making your lives better.
This newsletter contains important information about price changes, and new releases of all our software (including a critical security update). Please forward this newsletter to anyone in your organization who would find this information useful. They can subscribe to future newsletters using the link below:
We are pleased to announce that the Benefits Presentation for Winthrop Development Consultants products has been updated to match the recently released builds of GP Power Tools (GPPT), Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) and Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT).
Winthrop Development Consultants was recently notified by InstallAware, the supplier of the installer software used for the distribution packages for all our products, that a Security Vulnerability was identify in their product. They have released a new version that resolves the issue.
However, the issue will exist on all machines that have used an installer built with the previous compromised versions of their installer software.
Using the newly fixed installer software, we have created and released new builds of all our products which should be installed at all customer and partner sites as soon as possible. Any build of any of our products downloaded and installed after 10-Aug-2022 contains the fix.
[Edit] Old builds with this security vulnerability were discontinued at the end of December 2023, except for final builds of old GP versions. More details below.
Winthrop Development Consultants is pleased to announce Build 17 of Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released on 10-Aug-2022.
This build includes a number of enhancements as well as improvements to the registration and installer systems.
We had another interesting support case recently where administrator users were getting slow login performance after installing a Winthrop Development Consultants product. When a standard user logged in they did not experience any delays.
The additional delay was around 90 to 120 seconds, after which everything would appear to work as normal.
This week we had a customer contact us after they changed the Proxy Settings which are part of the Registration System in all Winthrop Development Consultants products. After the change Microsoft Dynamics GP would crash on startup, probably because the settings were incorrect.
These settings should not normally be used as the Winthrop Development Consultants registration system (which uses Quick License Manager from Soraco Technologies) can normally work with the same internet connection as needed for standard web browsing.