The current world situation has brought out some of the best online humour that we have seen in recent times.
You all know that my wife, Jennifer, and I love cycling and we recently found this hilarious series created by Brad Sohner on YouTube.
#GPPT Converting .Net Execute Scripts from C# to VB.Net
Following on from the previous articles: #GPPT Speeding Up Referencing Modifier Added Fields and staying Web Client compatible and #GPPT Referencing Modifier Added Fields in the Web Client using .Net Execute, this article looks how we can use VB.Net rather than C# as the scripting language in the .Net Execute scripts.
Both VB.Net and C# use the .Net Common Language Runtime (CLR) and it is usually possible to write exactly the same code in either language. So we will duplicate our existing C# scripts and convert them to VB.Net, then we will duplicate the triggers to call the new scripts.
COVID-19 and Winthrop Development Consultants
As my email inbox is getting filled with COVID-19 related updates from almost every company I have dealt with in the past, I thought I would not perpetuate the situation with another email.
But then I thought, would people be concerned if they had not heard from us? So I decided I would post something as a blog article instead, and here it is ….
#GPPT Speeding Up Referencing Modifier Added Fields and staying Web Client compatible
Using the method discussed in the article #GPPT Referencing Modifier Added Fields in the Web Client using .Net Execute it was possible able to get past some of the limitations mentioned in the article Dynamics.Application Object not available on Web Client.
However, running the .Net (C# or VB.Net) code is slightly slower than running the Dexterity (sanScript) code. This article explains a method of how to improve Desktop Client performance while staying compatible with the Web Client.
Run Batch Files and Powershell Scripts with Administrator Permissions easily
Here is something a little different for you. I have two external drives connected to my Microsoft Surface Book 2 15″ computer. One is a 256GB micro SD card hidden in a BaseQi Ninja Stealth Drive loaded into the SD Card slot and the other is a USB 3.0 connected Western Digital 2TB WD Elements Portable. Both of these drives have BitLocker enabled and have the password remembered on this machine.
Every now and then, the drives fail to initialize correctly and in turn fail to unlock with BitLocker. Even though I can see the drives and their total and used capacity, I cannot access them.
#GPPT Referencing Modifier Added Fields in the Web Client using .Net Execute
You probably saw the recent article: Dynamics.Application Object not available on Web Client where I described an issue that was recently discovered and meant that the “Continuum” based triggers and scripts used to reference Modifier Added Fields in GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module were unable to work in the Web Client.
I mentioned a workaround that would function with the current GP Power Tools code when running on the Web Client (and Desktop Client). This article will show how you can use scripts in the .Net Execute Setup window to reference Modifier Added Fields.
Dynamics.Application Object not available on Web Client
This article comes about because we have identified a feature of GP Power Tools that does not work as expected on the Web Client. GP Power Tools has the ability to run scripts and register triggers against Modifier added fields and Modal Dialogs. These features uses the Dynamics.Application object and in particular a suite of functionality historically known as “Continuum”.
We can now confirm that the Dynamics.Application object is not available at all when running Microsoft Dynamics GP in the Web Client and so any functionality reliant on this object will fail to work.
