Microsoft Dexterity Source Code Programming – Alba Spectrum

July 10, 2006 (Press Release) -- Since its introduction as C-Shell computer platform (MAC & Windows) and DB independent programming language and development environment, Great Plains Dexterity covered very long and probably bumpy way together with the whole ERP and IT industry. When C programming language was a believed panacea to provide application cross-platform expansion, nobody could envision such future toys as web thin client (HTML and JavaScript programming with Java EJB and .NET database connectors), XML (providing simple cross-platform interoperability) and especially XML web services (enabling remote users to get info from virtually any server). When Great Plains Software was acquired by Microsoft – the new owner as we guess had no plans to play-up such Dexterity old-good “strong points” as C Shell and cross-platform potential, and as many expected Microsoft Business Solutions “froze” new “Source Code Partner” re-enrollment. In 2005 Microsoft BS re-opened the program (however the price of the new enrollment and annual fee is king of high for small and mid-size VAR). The unofficial opinions were – Microsoft Project Green or currently Microsoft Dynamics project is a technological challenge and it will not happen overnight, so Dexterity is still out there and partners, who help MBS develop verticals for Microsoft Dynamics GP are still welcomed.
• DYNAMICS.DIC. This dictionary has all the logic of GP core modules. When you install MS Dynamics GP 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0 and older versions DYNAMICS.DIC comes with scripts stripped out. If you are enrolled into Dex source code program you have access to DYNAMICS.DIC with all the scripts in place. This enables you to look up procedures and functions calls examples, the sequence of events, etc – very good help in your custom programming, which is based on the imitation.
• Dexterity Programmers Pool. Well, good point – when Microsoft purchased GPS, Navision, Axapta, etc. – it launched the plan to unify its MRP applications on the .Net and MS SQL Server base. This decision resulted in new Dex programmers training slow down.

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