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As a fantastic follow-up to my previous posts about the history of Great Plains, Victoria Yudin and Mohammad Daoud brought to my notice a very detailed Timeline of Dynamics GP (and Doug Burgum) created by the team at DynamicsWorld UK . The timeline shows
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For those of you interested in history of computing and Microsoft's involvement, take a look at the series of posts on the Channel 9 blog called the History of Microsoft. This series takes us from Microsoft's beginnings in 1975 through the years toward
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In a recent forum post , the question of where the business logic for Dynamics GP resides was raised. This is an excellent question which, sadly, does not have a simple answer. When Great Plains Dynamics was first developed for the Ctree and Btrieve ISAM
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As a followup to last week's post about Understanding how Microsoft Dynamics GP works with Microsoft SQL Server , I am adding a few more topics about why Microsoft Dynamics GP works the way it does with Microsoft SQL Server. So here goes .... Transactions
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Many people who have not been working with Microsoft Dynamics GP since the early non-SQL versions of Great Plains Dynamics sometimes wonder about the way that the application works with Microsoft SQL Server. The answer is in the long history of the product
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This is really an extension of the blog article that David Musgrave wrote VBA - Welcome to Dynamics Example , but instead of using VBA to play the sound file, we are using Dexterity. The same method is called in the winmm.dll, but this is just the Dexterity
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A little while ago I was sent a document which has the release dates for every release of Great Plains/Microsoft Dynamics GP from version 1.0 to the current version 10.0. I thought it would be a fun exercise to post a summary of this timeline so you can
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From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . During the course of this series we have discussed how you can change terminology, or even the entire language of a Dexterity application. We have discussed flipping the windows for languages that read
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If you have ever spent time analysing a DEXSQL.LOG file you might have seen a reference to a table column called desSPRkmhBBCreh. This post explains what this column is used for and why it has the name it does. For example: SELECT desSPRkmhBBCreh FROM
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If you look at a SQL Server installation of Microsoft Dynamics GP, in the Stored Procedures folder underneath the Dynamics system database or a company database you will find a large number of stored procedures starting with the initials"zDP". This article
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Why doesn't the password I use for Microsoft Dynamics GP work for me to access the data in SQL from <insert application name here>? Why does my password sometimes fail to work from one workstation when it works from another? Why does the password
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Even though support for a splash screen was added to Dexterity v3.00, Great Plains Dynamics v5.50 was the first version to include a splash.bmp file and Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains v8.00 was the last version to include a splash.bmp file.
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For those of you who have been involved with the Great Plains product for a while, you will remember the " Welcome to Dynamics " wave that played when the application was launched. Well, if you want that functionality again, you can use VBA to add it
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I thought that I would have a little fun and be nostalgic for a bit. I have been working with Great Plains Dynamics since version 2.00 in 1994. The company I was with did look at version 1.00, but decided not to become a reseller at that time. Instead
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