Developing for Microsoft Dynamics GP

February 2009 - Posts

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  Handling Translation when Customizing with VBA From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . The final topic in the series is one that was added later after I was asked about how to handle translated applications when writing customizations. Most code would work fine as it is independent of... Read More... Published: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Language, Translation, Visual Studio Tools, Customizations, Modifier, VBA

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  Optimizing your Translation Effort From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . After a chat with Mariano Gomez, who was directly responsible for the creation of the first Spanish version of Microsoft Dynamics GP , I realized that I had not yet covered some additional areas that... Read More... Published: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Translation, Dexterity

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  Windows Update causes problems with VBA code We have recently started seeing a few problems with Microsoft Dynamics GP VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) customizations as the result of a critical Windows Update that was released. I have done some research on the issues our customer's have... Read More... Published: Monday, February 23, 2009, 09:30 AM Tags: Security, ActiveX, VBA

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  Dexterity and Double Byte Languages 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... Read More... Published: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: French, Translation, Arabic, Dexterity, Hebrew, History, German, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Double Byte, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean

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  Time for a change "A change is as good as a holiday." I had some time today to make some changes to the visual side of the Developing for Dynamics GP blog. The blog is designed to work with a 1024 x 768 resolution or greater and is now 100 pixels wider. The old... Read More... Published: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 08:30 PM Tags: Blogsphere, General

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  How to Horizontally Flip the Windows From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . So now we know how to translate the language, which is fine for a "western" language, but what about languages that are read from right to left rather than left to right; languages such as... Read More... Published: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 11:00 AM Tags: Translation, Arabic, Dexterity, Hebrew, Hijri Date

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  Customizing Microsoft Dynamics GP? 5 Excuses You Will Want to Bury Once and For All! Over the years that I have worked with Great Plains and Microsoft Dynamics GP, I have seen (and written) many customizations at customer sites. Some of those customizations are in the form of products to handle specific vertical markets or generic tools... Read More... Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 05:12 PM Tags: Blogsphere, Customizations

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  Translating Dexterity Code From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . Now that we understand how to write the Dexterity code to allow it to be easily translated and also work in a multi-lingual system. The next step is actually translating the strings and messages. Before... Read More... Published: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Translation, Dexterity

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  Linking Field Prompts and fixing VBA Reference Errors The great postings around the blogsphere just keep coming. I am not complaining as the body of knowledge they provide to community is growing all the time. My buddy, Mariano Gomez, who is a wealth of knowledge and is always willing to help on the newsgroups... Read More... Published: Monday, February 16, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Blogsphere, Dexterity, Modifier, VBA

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  Writing Multi-Lingual Dexterity Code From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . With large international companies using Microsoft Dynamics GP in multiple countries, we are seeing the need to be able to run more than one language of the application on the same system. Even if an... Read More... Published: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Translation, Dexterity

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  Writing Translatable Dexterity Code From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . When Great Plains Software worked on translating the Dynamics product into multiple languages they came across a number of problems. Even though Dexterity was designed to allow easy translation, the... Read More... Published: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Translation, Dexterity

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  Tools Sessions at Convergence 2009 If you are going to Convergence 2009 in New Orleans between the 10 th and 13 th of March 2009, make sure you attend the various sessions about the Microsoft Dynamics GP development and customization tools. Below are the details of the sessions: GP04 Building... Read More... Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Conference, eConnect, ADO, Extender, SQL, Modifier, SmartList Builder, Web Services, VBA, Report Writer, Integration Manager

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  Dexterity: Designed for Translation From the Translating Dexterity Applications Series . When Great Plains Software decided to update their text based Great Plains Accounting (GPA) software for the graphical user interface (GUI) world of Windows and Macintosh, they found that a suitable... Read More... Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Translation, Dexterity

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  MVPs presenting at Convergence 2009 Some of the Microsoft Dynamics GP MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) will be presenting at Convergence 2009 in New Orleans . The conference runs between the 10 th and 13 th of March 2009. If you are going to the conference, please make sure you attend... Read More... Published: Monday, February 09, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Conference, Blogsphere

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  Translating Dexterity Applications Series After a number of questions about translation recently, I have decided to focus on Dexterity's multi-lingual and translation capabilities for the next couple of weeks. The posts in the series include: 11-Feb: Dexterity: Designed for Translation 13... Read More... Published: Sunday, February 08, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Translation, Dexterity

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  Creating SQL Views of Extender Data Extender can create SQL views of the data in an Extender window which allows the data to be viewed as a single row in the view even though the actual data is stored as a multiple records across multiple tables (depending on data type). This view can then... Read More... Published: Thursday, February 05, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Extender, SQL, SmartList Builder

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  Dexterity Posts around the Blogsphere There have been a couple of great Dexterity related posts on the blogsphere recently. So, to make sure you get to see them I am posting the links here for you. Enabling References In Dexterity Please have a look at Sivakumar Venkataraman's post on... Read More... Published: Wednesday, February 04, 2009, 06:00 PM Tags: Blogsphere, Dexterity

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  Why are pictures in Dynamics GP limited to 32Kb? If you have ever wondered why the Microsoft Dynamics GP Report Writer limits you to 32Kb (32,767 bytes) when adding images, this post should hopefully explain the reasons. The most important point to note is that the 32Kb limit is for an uncompressed... Read More... Published: Tuesday, February 03, 2009, 05:30 PM Tags: Dexterity, Graphics, Report Writer

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  Custom Search Engine to Search All Dynamics GP Blogs Jivtesh Singh has been busy. With the explosion of Microsoft Dynamics GP blogs it has become much harder to find the information you want. There are now over 20 sites in my list of Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs . Jivtesh has taken on this challenge and... Read More... Published: Monday, February 02, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Blogsphere, News, Search

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  Customizing Visual Studio Tools Addin Modules In a recent Newsgroup posting , it was asked if Modifier and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and the Extender module worked for windows created as part of a Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP Addin module. The answer is that Modifier and... Read More... Published: Sunday, February 01, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Visual Studio Tools, Modifier, VBA