Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

re: Visual Studio Tools Menus for Microsoft Dynamics GP

jivtesh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:02:32 GMT

I had this problem a couple of months back.

We had an application that integrated with GP, and had multiple menu items in GP.

When planning for an upgrade we decided it would be more efficient to migrate the code to C#. Everything worked out fine - except the menu's. We had to write dexterity code and create a chunk file, and all it did was add a menu option that launched the application. Definitely seemed in-efficient, but that was the only way to go. To make things simpler - we decided to move all menu items but the app launcher in .Net application.

re: Visual Studio Tools Menus for Microsoft Dynamics GP

maruf_d — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:30:39 GMT

Awesome! I have seen people struggling with it. This would be very helpful. Look forward to the next post :)

re: Visual Studio Tools Menus for Microsoft Dynamics GP

cftung — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:58:05 GMT

Great to heard that this available tools. By the way, GP menu security able to control the menu access for those menu created in VS tools?

re: Visual Studio Tools Menus for Microsoft Dynamics GP

David Musgrave — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:03:11 GMT

Hi Richard.

Great question.

When you create a menu from VS Tools you have the option to assign a security form to it. The new menu will now have the same security access as that form.

For example: Assigning the RM_Customer_Maintenance form to a menu will mean that it can only be used if the current user has access to the Customer Maintenance form itself.

Security can be asign at the time the menu is registered, or afterwards if desired.

David

re: Visual Studio Tools Menus for Microsoft Dynamics GP

David Musgrave — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:50:39 GMT

Posting on VSToolsForum.com

http://vstoolsforum.com/forums/p/524/1208.aspx#1208

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

lfdiii — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:58 GMT

100% needed here.

This will be great to have. Also, you would probably get more of a response if anon comments weren't disabled.

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

Russ — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:28:52 GMT

This tool would be very helpful.

Menus for Visual Studio Tools - The wait is over

Developing for Dynamics GP — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:38:49 GMT

Some great news for Microsoft Visual Studio developers who use Visual Studio Tools to integrate with

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

Sajeesh — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:16:08 GMT

Dear David,

This new innovation is really marvelous. I would like to take this opportunity to express my happiness and congratulation to you. The one of main constraints have been removed because of this new feature.

I hope we will get the LineFill event as well, soon in DTK :-)

Kind Regards,

Sajeesh

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

David Musgrave — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:37:26 GMT

Hi Sajeesh

The LineFill event was removed from v9.0 as it would not have worked.

At the time when Dexterity executes the LineFill event, the contents of the scrolling window (grid) are not yet populated. In Dexterity we have to access the data from the table buffer. As v9.0 of Visual Studio Tools did not have table buffer support, the LineFill event would not have been of any use. Because of this it was removed from the v9.0 release.

When table buffer support was added into v10.0 of Visual Studio Tools, the LineFill event was overlooked and not added back. Development are aware of this and hopefully will we see it added back soon.

David

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Developing for Dynamics GP — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:39:57 GMT

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re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

Rayzback — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:37:21 GMT

Awsome! Being one who does not have time to dive into Dexterity. In just a couple of hours I was able to take all of the scattered menu handlers for our custom .net apps and turn them into a professional and easy to find menu items. Thank You!

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

Triven — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:19:00 GMT

Please let me know if we can have this in GP 9.0 - menus

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

David Musgrave — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:53:35 GMT

Hi Triven

The Menus for Visual Studio Tools has only been released for v10.0. For v9.0 you will still need to create your own Dexterity dictionary. For v11.0, the plan is to have a different method built into Visual Studio Tools.

David

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

David Musgrave — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:47:48 GMT

Posting from Jivtesh Singh

http://www.jivtesh.com/2009/03/visual-studio-tools-for-dynamics-gp.html

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

Kevin Jones — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:44:37 GMT

David:

I am running into a problem when accessing VS Tools windows using the new Menus for VS Tools. The problem is this: if the VS Tools window is open when I change companies the window does not automatically close like all the other windows in GP do. Also if I close GP with the VS Tools window open it appears that the VS Tools window hangs and is the very last thing to close (after GP is already closed). Are there any solutions to this issue? When using VS Tools windows the old way (attached to another GP window) it is easy to close it based on if the GP window has closed.

Kevin

re: Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0

Patrick Roth [MSFT] — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:08:59 GMT

Kevin,

You need to take care of your own windows - just the same as if they were "attached" to a form.

In this case you need to trigger on a window that is open and closes on the switch company. Use the Toolbar.MainMenu1 window for this.