| Recent Microsoft marketing move from Microsoft | | | | buttons and editable fields on the forms and attach |
| Business Solutions to Dynamics means Project Green | | | | VBA scripts to these buttons and fields. Theoretically |
| wave 1 progress. This will mean increasing role of | | | | you can deploy ADO and make a call to the |
| XML web services enabled as connectors to | | | | database, but typically this would be given to Dexterity |
| eConnect or Integration Object SDK. Let's come to | | | | programmer. Also Modifier can deal with ReportWriter |
| the subject. When Great Plains Software introduced | | | | report, which is rarely used option, but you should be |
| the first graphical accounting application for Mac and | | | | aware of it. Another usufull feature - calling Crystal |
| Windows in the beginning of 1990th it had Great Plains | | | | Reports engine from VBA, so you can print custom |
| Dexterity customization tool, IDE and programming | | | | Crystal Report - Invoice from SOP Entry screen, |
| language. | | | | instead of regular Report Writer SOP Invoice Form. |
| Dexterity design was based on several longevity | | | | Continuum for VB and Delphi. We do not touch |
| principles: Graphical platform independence and | | | | obvious features of Continuum, but would like to |
| database platform independence and easy switch | | | | mention its advanced use. First, in Dexterity you can |
| from one DB to the other among the most important | | | | not easily target multiple modules (coming from |
| ones. Dexterity was written as a shell in C | | | | different software vendors, those days Intellisol |
| programming language, which was platform | | | | Advanced Purchase Order Processing, Project |
| independent and at the same time very efficient in | | | | Accounting and ForeStar Fixed Assets). This feature |
| compilation (close to assembler). Since then we saw | | | | could be addressed through Continuum generated |
| new tools and options: | | | | VBA code with inclusion of Dexterity Scripts |
| Modifier with VBA. This tool allows you place custom | | | | (Sanscript). |