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• Improving Performance Accessing Tables in Dexterity

  Here are a couple of really cool tricks that can boost performance of your Dexterity code for almost no effort at all. The techniques discussed below can significantly speed up accessing table buffers in functions and procedures when looping through a... Published: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 05:00 PM Tags: Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Best Practice

• Safepay Integration

  Recently, I have been getting a lot of customization requests for Safepay, specifically, adding information into the detail line in the safepay file. Safepay customizations like that are pretty much all the same thing, no matter what field you want to... Published: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 05:00 PM Tags: Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Cross Dictionary

• Debugging ISV Application Crashing Dynamics

  I recently had a case that I thought I'd share with you. A well known ISV opened an incident with Developer Support to help solve an issue at their customer site. This ISV has an application that encrypts certain sensitive data in the custom application... Published: Friday, February 19, 2010, 02:00 AM Tags: Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Exception, Encryption

• Accessing a Table Buffer when it is not passed as a parameter

  This post is a follow up to the previous posts on the Three Trigger Technique . If you have not read the posts explaining this technique, please use the links below: Using the Dexterity Three Trigger Technique Part 1 Using the Dexterity Three Trigger... Published: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Triggers, Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Cross Dictionary, Best Practice

• VBA - Determine if the Caps Lock button is enabled on Password entry

  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... Published: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Advanced Topic, Passwords, VBA

• Using the Dexterity Three Trigger Technique Part 2

  In the previous part of this post we discussed the theory of the Three Trigger Technique and the details of a problem that was solved using this technique. This post will cover the actual solution used and has the scripts used so you can see the techniques... Published: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Triggers, Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Cross Dictionary, Best Practice

• Using the Dexterity Three Trigger Technique Part 1

  When working with Dexterity triggers, the hardest part of the process is working out where to place the triggers. There are times where it seems impossible to get the trigger you need in the correct location. This post explains the concept of what I call... Published: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 05:00 PM Tags: Triggers, Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Cross Dictionary, Best Practice

• Dex - Filtering a Third Party Lookup

  When I started this blog, one of my goals was to help developers push the boundaries of what they believe is possible. This was the foundation of the materials presented at conferences by myself and Mark Rockwell. For more information on the conference... Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 11:52 PM Tags: Pushing the Limits with Dexterity, Advanced Topic, Dexterity, Cross Dictionary