Released on: June 10, 2008, 3:35 pm

Press Release Author: Alba Spectrum

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Microsoft Dexterity or former name is Great Plains Dexterity
is Integrated Development Environment and programming language (Sanscript). Current
version of Microsoft Dynamics GP is 10.0 and software programmers have broader
number of customization tools: eConnect, SQL scripting, Visual Studio SDK, Modifier
with VBA.

Press Release Body: Microsoft Dexterity or former name is Great Plains Dexterity is
Integrated Development Environment and programming language (Sanscript). Current
version of Microsoft Dynamics GP is 10.0 and software programmers have broader
number of customization tools: eConnect, SQL scripting, Visual Studio SDK, Modifier
with VBA. However if you look at earlier versions: 5.0, 6.0, 7.5 then you will
discover that large number of existing Great Plains ERP installations have
modifications programmed in GP Dexterity. Dex is still all-mighty and extremely
powerful tool - you will see Dexterity foundation in GP tables, forms, atomic stored
procedures (deployed by Dex table indexes). Let's review the bullets of Dex
customization maintenance:

1. Dexterity source dictionary. Yes, this is typically first question - do you have
DYNAMICS.DIC file with your source code? This file should be given to you by your
former GP ISV, Dexterity programmer or consultant. If you are not sure, you should
review your software archive, communication with former GPS partner. If you can not
get source dictionary, then Dex developer could try to recreate the code based on
still available tables and forms, but of course you are not really happy to face
this recreation and reprogramming

2. Dex customization upgrade. You should invite professional Dexterity programmer
to do this job as Dex is pretty proprietary and complex and it is not feasible to
train your in-house programmer to do the upgrade. Code update itself is reviewing
and comparing old and new forms and tables and making adjustments to existing
sunscript code. If you customization was created really long time ago, something
like in 1999 and earlier, then Dexterity developer should recommend you to switch
several Dex cursors to SQL Server Stored Procedures to boost performance

3. GP modification recovery. If you are trying to move GP from one server to
another, if you are changing your server IP address or computer name, if you are
reshuffling your network - then you may encounter the situation when GP or its
custom feature stop working. In the case when you are on MS SQL Server DB platform
- all you need to do is to review your ODBC connection settings, however when you
are on Pervasive SQL or Ctree - you will need to perform so-called location
translation procedure, which requires professional Great Plains consultant, who has
experience working with legacy versions of Great Plains Dynamics or eEnterprise


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custom programming for GP, we are happy to help you with Dexterity, eConnect,
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