The Dynamics GP Blogster

Over at Developing for Dynamics GP , Patrick Roth has a new article describing the new Visual Studio Tools 2010 shiny features , in particular Modal Dialog handling, passing table buffers as parameters, and function and procedure notifications. Patrick also provides sample code showing how to respond to Modal Dialog events as well as code to display notifications. For the most part, VST now behaves likes Dex so, don't complain and enjoy the new enhancements. PS. Wait until you see the new Menus for Visual Studio Tools... sure not to dissapoint. Until next post! MG.- Mariano Gomez, MVP Maximum Global Business, LLC http://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com/

I was very intrigued by the Menus for Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP ( VSTM ) application created by my friend David Musgrave . I studied the sample code provided in the PDF documentation submitted with the product and after a few hours of careful reading, it dawned on me that if I could expose the VSTM assembly to COM interop other developers, including VBA developers could also have their native VBA forms called as part of Dynamics GP menus. After a few attempts over a few days to register the assembly with COM by using the Microsoft Assembly Registration tool , I abandoned the effort due to an existing issue registering the Microsoft.Dexterity.Bridge assembly which is referenced within the VSTM assembly to be able to make calls to Dexterity . This however, did not discourage me from seeking other alternatives. Going back to basics, I realized that the VSTM assembly methods are just references to function scripts implemented within the VSTM dexterity dictionary. In ...

My friend David Musgrave has been busy lately. He has brought to us great products like Named Printers, Advanced Security, SnapShot, and Support Debugging Tool . He has done it again with the release of Menus for Visual Studio Tools (MVST). For those of you not familiar with MVST, it's a Dexterity-based product that exposes an API to Visual Studio developers for them to add their own menu items to the Microsoft Dynamics GP interface, providing even more transparent integrating products and customizations. If you may recall, there was no (out of the box) way to go about this with standard Visual Studio Tools functionality, which forced VS developers to create their own Dexterity customization to add their own menus. Of course, every developer has a different approach to writing code and coming up with an integrating solution -- IF they happen to know Dexterity, which wasn't always the case. As a participant in the of the beta testing phase I played with some of the tool's fe...