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Developing for Dynamics GP
Support for Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 8.0 ends soon
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
3
Comments
Support for Great Plains 8.0 ends on 13-Oct-2009. If your system or any systems you look after is running on v8.0 or earlier. Now is the time to get them upgraded to v9.0 or even better v10.0. For more information on the lifecycle policy for Great...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Microsoft announces partnership with Yahoo!
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
1
Comments
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Modifier - How to Expand the GL Transaction Entry Scrolling Window Example
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
1
Comments
One of the customisations that I have heard requests for a number of times is to open the General Ledger Journal Entry (GL Transaction Entry) window's scrolling window (grid) to its expanded state when the window is opened. The method to make this...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Arabic Version of Microsoft Dynamics GP
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
One of our community's MVP, Mohammad Daoud, is giving us a preview of the Arabic version of Microsoft Dynamics GP he has created. He has used Modifier and Report Writer to update all the messages and strings in the dictionaries, which leaves the original...
Developing for Dynamics GP
What does the Preprinted Form option on the Report Definition window do?
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
When working with the Report Writer to print a report onto a preprinted form it is important to ensure that the report prints to the same position regardless of the printer or printer driver used. This article explains the option that allows a report...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Windows 7 Released To Manufacturing
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
Yesterday Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were released to manufacturing. This is a huge milestone that is the culmination of an enormous amount of work from many teams within Microsoft. This is an exciting time for all Microsoft employees and...
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Getting Started with Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
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. Many of the concepts that make up the fundamentals of Dexterity development...
Developing for Dynamics GP
VBA - Determine if the Caps Lock button is enabled on Password entry
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Patrick Roth
4
Comments
With password policies in place in Dynamics 10.0 RTM, it was easy to be able for your user to 'lock themselves out' after a mistyped password or two. Because Dynamics GP doesn't give you any kind of warning that the Caps Lock key is enabled, the user...
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WorldMaps Stumbler
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over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
1
Comments
Back in February 2009, I added WorldMaps tracking to the blog so we could track the hits the blog was receiving along with the approximate source location based on the IP addresses. Thanks to you, the readers, we have remained ranked within the top...
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Unexpected Hidden Talents - Another cake added
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
2
Comments
After 13 years, it has finally happened. I am the father of a teenager. My eldest son , Aaron, turned 13 last month and we recently had a party for him and his friends to go and see the new Transformers movie. As has become the tradition in our...
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Dexterity Pragma Pre-compiler directives
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
Most Dexterity developers would have seen the pragma(disable warning LiteralStringUsed) command used at some stage to avoid literal string warnings when hard coded strings are needed as part of a script. This can often be the case when building SQL where...
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Microsoft Translator Tool
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over 3 years ago
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David Musgrave
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You might have noticed that the Developing for Dynamics GP blog now has a built in translation tool using Microsoft Translator. Just look down the left hand side of the blog site and you will see the Microsoft Translator tool widget as shown in the image...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Happy 1st Blogday
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
5
Comments
Wow, tomorrow the Developing for Dynamics GP blog turns one year old. We, the authors , would like to say big thank-you to everyone who reads the blog. We are looking forward to an exciting year to come. Please let us know what you would like...
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RW - Getting RW_ConvertToWordsAndNumbers() to show cents in words
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over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
5
Comments
A little while ago I wrote an article about how to get the RW_ConvertToWordsAndNumbers() report writer user defined function to work correctly for both originating and functional currency views. Today, a comment was added to that article asking about...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Microsoft Dynamics GP Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
5
Comments
My good friend Mariano Gomez has just let us know that he has been given MVP status for another year, for details see his post One more year as Dynamics GP MVP . This gives me an excuse (don't really need one, but ...) to say a huge Thank-you to all...
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Any Font in the Dexterity Script Editor
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over 3 years ago
by
Patrick Roth
2
Comments
Aren't secrets fun? And while having a secret is fun in and of itself, it is also fun to share them from time to time (and allowed to share them). The secret today is an undocumented feature that I believe was added to 10.0 SP2. As an undocumented...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Microsoft Dynamics Product Certification
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over 3 years ago
by
Emily H
1
Comments
Have you ever wondered what Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have to do to achieve Certified for Microsoft Dynamics status? If this is the case, read on.... This certification is for Partner solutions which have met the high standard for Customer...
Developing for Dynamics GP
New Training Blog Site for Australian Partners
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
This is just a quick note to mention the new blog by the Australian Partner Training team. Some of the articles are of relevance to the global community and not just the Australian partners. So, go have a look at http://blogs.technet.com/AusPartnerTraining...
Developing for Dynamics GP
Dex - How to Fix the File Association for the .DIC extension
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
David Musgrave
0
Comments
In the Dex - Identifying the build number of a Development Dictionary post, we covered using the Windows Explorer to get the dictionary version from the file properties. This only works if the .DIC extension is correctly associated with Dexterity as a...
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