Released on = July 30, 2007, 3:19 pm

Press Release Author = Alba Spectrum Group

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains version 10.0 is now
released and available to GP customers and MBS partners. There are also Microsoft
Dynamics whitepapers available to GP developers and programmers community to begin
helping GP ERP customers to support, upgrade, migrate and customize new version of
GP - Dynamics GP 10.0. In this small article we would like to give you historical
excurse and emphasize our opinion on Great Plains Dexterity renaissance, including
GP dex source code programming, dex sanscript legacy customizations upgrade without
the fearing of the future dex phasing out

Press Release Body = Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918

Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains version 10.0 is now released and available to GP
customers and MBS partners. There are also Microsoft Dynamics whitepapers available
to GP developers and programmers community to begin helping GP ERP customers to
support, upgrade, migrate and customize new version of GP - Dynamics GP 10.0. In
this small article we would like to give you historical excurse and emphasize our
opinion on Great Plains Dexterity renaissance, including GP dex source code
programming, dex sanscript legacy customizations upgrade without the fearing of the
future dex phasing out. Of course we can not guarantee you the future, as we are
not Microsoft corporation, however chances are high that Microsoft Dynamics GP is
getting back to its legacy roots
1. GP development tools. There are several tools available for Visual Studio,
Dexterity and VBA programmers: Microsoft Dexterity, eConnect, VBA with Modifier
(this option is very strange for GP 10.0 as it is known fact that for version 9.0
MBS discouraged GP community to use VBA scripting with Modifier). If you are C# or
VB.Net developer you should consider SDK, allowing your to deploy XML Web Services
and eConnect, plus Dexterity COM technologies to extend GP workstation interface
2. eConnect - isn't too modest move? As being enlightened by Microsoft Project
Green, we expected that somewhere by 2005 Microsoft Great Plains would be integrated
with Microsoft manufacturing (Navision ?) and Project (Solomon ?) suites. This in
turn should result in GP being rewritten in C# .Net code. Well, the expectations
probably have to be checked by the market itself. As we see so far, Microsoft
Dynamics AX Axapta is progressing with X++ and MorphX, Navision C Side, so does GP -
Dexterity gets integrated with new Microsoft Windows features, such as COM, XML Web
Services
3. Dexterity Cursors Dilemma. If your Dex customization roots in late 1990th, you
probably have data base independent Dexterity cursors. When Microsoft purchased
Great Plains Software, Microsoft abandoned all the others DB platform, but MS SQL
Server/MSDN: Pervasive SQL 2000/Btrieve and Ctree. Dexterity cursors are using Dex
super indexes, and doing so this construction is a bit slow and obsolete,
considering MS SQL Server native origin for GP newest versions: 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0.
We recommend you to consider disassembling dex cursors to SQL Server stored
procedures and scripts
4. Dynamics.dic. If you have dex customization, this is where your custom code is
sitting. In some cases NBS partner will give you extract.dic
5. Reporting Tools. ReportWriter is pure Dexterity module with all the restrictions
of Dexterity, especially on indexes and cross modules data pulling. If you need
more flexible reporting tool, consider SQL Server Reporting Services (SRS ) , or
even older industry standard - Crystal Reports
6. Generic ODBC DB connection. If you are comfortable with ODBC - you should review
GP tables structure and this would open Visual Studio ADO connection to GP
databases, the programming language of choice is your decision

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group: http://www.albaspectrum.com
help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving Microsoft Dynamics GP
Great Plains customers in USA/Canada nationwide. Local service is available in
Houston, TX: Richmond, Sugar Land, Katy, Rosenberg, Missouri City, Pearland,
Friendswood, Meadows, Mission Bend, Jersey Village; Chicago, IL: Naperville, Aurora,
Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Joliet, Wheaton, Lisle, Downers Grove, Schaumburg, Elk
Grove, Lombard, Woodridge, Darien, Westmont, Batavia, St. Charles, Elgin, Crystal
Lake. Service is also available in Houston and Dallas metros, plus internationally
in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Oceania and UK.



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