Developing for Microsoft Dynamics GP

December 2009 - Posts

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  Happy New Year 2010 Welcome to 2010. This year will be an exciting year to me in the IT and accounting software industry. We have already seen the release of Windows 7 and are looking forward to the releases of Office 2010, as well as the server components such as Exchange... Read More... Published: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: General

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  Blast from the Past - The Inside Track - January 2001 This is article 5 of 10 from the Blast from the Past - The Inside Track Series . This newsletter from Karl Gunderson was sent out in January 2001. The Inside Track "COM See, COM Saw" January 2001 If my titles get to be too cute, blast me some... Read More... Published: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Dexterity, VB, History, Inside Track

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  Blast from the Past - The Inside Track - December 2000 This is article 4 of 10 from the Blast from the Past - The Inside Track Series . This newsletter from Karl Gunderson was sent out in December 2000. The Inside Track "See Farther, See Sharper" [Ed: Should be Further :-) ] December 2000 Do you... Read More... Published: Sunday, December 27, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: C#, VB, History, Inside Track

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  Season's Greeting 2009 Today I am definitely not working, but due to the magic of scheduling blog posts in advance, I can wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season. Thank you very much for your support over the years and in particular during 2009. David and the Developing... Read More... Published: Thursday, December 24, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: General

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  Blast from the Past - The Inside Track - November 2000 This is article 3 of 10 from the Blast from the Past - The Inside Track Series . This newsletter from Karl Gunderson was sent out in November 2000. The Inside Track November 2000 Did you see the Blondie comic on September 11, 2000? Check it out on www... Read More... Published: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: VB, History, Inside Track, XML

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  Mariano Gomez, the man, the "Source" For those of you who were at the Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Conference 2009 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA recently, you would have had a chance to meet Mariano Gomez (Microsoft Dynamics GP MVP and my co-presenter) in person. For everyone else, if you... Read More... Published: Monday, December 21, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Blogsphere

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  Blast from the Past - The Inside Track - October 2000 This is article 2 of 10 from the Blast from the Past - The Inside Track Series . This newsletter from Karl Gunderson was sent out in October 2000. The Inside Track From Here to There October 2000 In the last edition of The Inside Track, I introduced Microsoft... Read More... Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Dexterity, C#, VB, History, Inside Track

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  Testing Date Driven Features in GP Have you ever had a piece of functionality that is date driven that you wanted to automate a test for but couldn’t figure out the best way to control the dates in the system? Then this post will be very helpful for you! A common area I receive questions... Read More... Published: Friday, December 18, 2009, 12:00 AM Tags: Dex.ini, Macro, Alice Newsam, Testing

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  Blast from the Past - The Inside Track - August 2000 This is article 1 of 10 from the Blast from the Past - The Inside Track Series . This newsletter from Karl Gunderson was sent out in August 2000. The Inside Track August 2000 Welcome to a new column in the Solution Developer newsletter, The Inside Track... Read More... Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Dexterity, C#, VB, History, Inside Track

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  Blast from the Past - The Inside Track Series As most of you know, before I worked for Microsoft, I ran Winthrop Dexterity Consultants . Well, I had a look at the old website recently and decided that it really needs to be updated. Since Winthrop sold the Omni Products to Rockton Software over three... Read More... Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: History, Inside Track

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  Determine SOP Type in SOP Entry using VBA or Visual Studio Tools I think the most customized window in VBA must be the SOP Entry window. If the customization is not saving custom data for the header/line items, then it is adding custom logic based on document type and any number of other factors. In all of this - especially... Read More... Published: Friday, December 11, 2009, 02:25 AM Tags: VBA, Visual Studio Tools

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  Do we really want Windows Authentication for Microsoft Dynamics GP? Over the years, I have seen many requests for Windows Authentication support for Microsoft Dynamics GP, and I have to say I have mixed feelings about it. In theory, it sounds good, but in practice it may be a threat to your customer's financial information... Read More... Published: Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: SQL, Application, Security, Passwords, Encryption

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  What is the A4 Chunk? Recently on the newsgroups, I responded to two separate questions on the same day asking about handling A4 size paper with Microsoft Dynamics GP. So I thought a post about the A4 chunk would be helpful. Background Before the age of laser & ink jet... Read More... Published: Sunday, December 06, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Application, Dexterity, Report Writer, APAC

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  Filtering eConnect Requester data I wanted to tell you about a recent case I had where the Partner was trying to restrict the Microsoft Dynamics GP data they had selected with the eConnect Requester Setup Tool. They were first importing some of their Sales Orders from an external system... Read More... Published: Thursday, December 03, 2009, 09:00 AM Tags: SQL, Triggers, eConnect, Row Level Filtering

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  More on Windows 7, bitmap fonts and DPI settings This post is a follow up to the previous post on the topic which discussed how you can use the registry editor to adjust the font files used for bitmap fonts to restore them to the default 100% DPI size. If you have not read the previous post, please... Read More... Published: Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Application, Windows 7, Fonts