Microsoft Dynamics GP Development: Dexterity, eConnect, Extender - Alba Spectrum

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If you have Microsoft Dynamics GP (earlier versions known as Great Plains Dynamics, eEnterprise, Great Plains Accounting for DOS, Windows and Mac) as your Corporate ERP, and you plan to undertake customization project, please read this small publication to get information session on Dynamics GP modification tools. We will concentrate on Microsoft Dexterity, eConnect SDK programming and Extender, as in our opinion other tools are derivative from either Dexterity or eConnect. If you need additional information on such tools as Integration Manager, Modifier with VBA, Web Services for Dynamics GP, please feel free to visit our web site or search official whitepapers on Microsoft Business Solutions portal:

1. Great Plains Dexterity, currently this Integrated Development Environment is known as Microsoft Dexterity. Dexterity was created as the shell to abstract Great Plains Dynamics from the Operating System and Database Platform layers back in earlier 1990th. Dexterity shell was programmed in C++ language, as it was common believe those days that C is operating system and computer platform independent (as in nowadays we believe that XML and HTML are computer platform independent as well). Since the time when Microsoft acquired Great Plains Software and abandoned all the DB versions (Pervasive SQL, Ctree), but Microsoft SQL Server and respectively concentrated on Windows platform exclusively (Great Plains Dynamics on Macintosh was abandoned earlier by Great Plains Software) Dexterity came through various transformations, such as supporting Microsoft COM objects, Calling Microsoft SQL Server Stored Procedures directly from Sanscript code - these transformations definitely made Dexterity more Microsoft Windows and SQL Server dependent and reduced the chances to migrate to different platform in the future

2. Dynamics GP eConnect. This is SDK or Software Development Kit with Sample Codes in C# and VB. eConnect base is coded in SQL Stored Procedures (that are encrypted, so you cannot alter or use their logic directly). eConnect was initially dedicated to Great Plains eCommerce programmers to open GP objects for ecommerce shopping cart - on archaic versions of econnect.

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