#GPPT Replacing VBA with GP Power Tools – Developer Tools

As a follow on to the recent post : #GPPT Why every GP site needs GP Power Tools – Developer Tools, this article explains the benefits of replacing your VBA (Visual Studio for Applications) and VSTools (Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP) customizations with GP Power Tools.

It has been prompted by the issues seen because the redistributable version of VBA that is packaged with Microsoft Dynamics GP has reached end-of-life as explained in the following article from the Microsoft Dynamics GP Support and Services team:

• Microsoft Dynamics GP and VBA: Future Considerations

#UserGroupSummit Winthrop Development Consultants at Summit Australia 2019

We are closing in on the start of the User Group Summit Australia in Melbourne with only 50 days to go before the conference, which runs between Wednesday 21^st and Friday 23^rd August 2019. There is also a pre-conference Partner only day on Tuesday the 20^th August 2019.

I am really looking forward to this conference as it is the first time there has been a User Group event in Australia and the first time for many years that there has been any event for Microsoft Dynamics GP partners and customers.

Microsoft Dynamics GP Dex.ini Settings not working

Another thread on the GPUG forum prompted me to write this article. It is one that I have been meaning to write for a while as this is not the first time I have seen complaints that a Dex.ini setting does not work or is not behaving as expected.

This article explains the changes made in the recent versions of Microsoft Dynamics GP and how they could be causing the behaviour you are seeing.

#MSDynGP Dynamics 365 BC is not an upgrade from Dynamics GP

This week a forum thread on the GPUG Open Forum caught my attention and I felt I had to respond. The topic was the future of Microsoft Dynamics GP and whether moving to Dynamics 365 is an option.

The fact that the question was asked again has prompted me to write another article to help get the correct message out to the Microsoft Dynamics GP community.

#UserGroupSummit Summit Australia Session Schedule now available

Just in case you missed it.

The Dynamic Communities team have published the session schedule for the Summit Australia for Microsoft Business Applications 2019 conference being held in Melbourne on 21-23 August 2019.

#UserGroupWT User Group World Tour 2019 – Johannesburg

Hello from Johannesburg.

Yesterday was the final day of the User Group World Tour 2019 conference in Johannesburg. It was a fantastic two days jammed packed with lots of sessions and plenty of “advanced networking opportunities” *.

#UserGroupSummit Join us for Summit Australia for Microsoft Business Applications 2019

For many years I have dreamed of having a User Summit event in Australia, so that the Asia Pacific region could get some conference “love” without having to travel to the USA. That dream is now a reality with the Summit Australia 2019 conference in Melbourne, Australia.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about the Microsoft Dynamics (especially Dynamics GP) and Power platform products.  Register before 12th June to get the Early Bird Discount.