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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWant to learn how to get the most out of GP Power Tools? Discover all the benefits of each module and how you can employ them in your systems? GP Power Tools is the ultimate suite of tools to get the most out of your Microsoft Dynamics GP system, regardless if you are a user, a system admin, a consultant, a developer or a database administrator.

I am pleased to announce that as well as the Dexterity Training (during the week before the conference), there will also be GP Power Tools training offered at Academy at Summit in the days before Community Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

There is always lots of new functionality and enhancements to cover with the release the latest builds of GP Power Tools. It has features that will benefit all users of GP regardless of the level of the technical experience.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageDo you want to customize Microsoft Dynamics GP or have customizations that you want to support into the future? Now is your chance for both customers and partners to get trained in Dexterity, the development environment that Dynamics GP is built on.

Understanding Dexterity will help any developer working with Dynamics GP regardless of the development environment they end up using. This knowledge is vital for developers using Dexterity, Visual Studio Tools (C# or VB.Net), “End of Life” Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or using the GP Power Tools – Developer Tools module.

I will be running the 5-day Dexterity Fundamentals for Dynamics GP bootcamp training class in the week before the Community Summit conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA in October. Please register for the training now and plan to be in Nashville for the week before the conference.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThere are a number of Maths puzzles doing the rounds on social media and many are based on the following theme:

X ÷ Y(A ± B)

The current one on Facebook is 16 ÷ 4(2+2) with people arguing over whether the answer is 16 or 1. I am writing this article because the “strict and literal use” of the PEMDAS or BODMAS mnemonics does not always give the correct answer.

However, it is possible to use the order of operations to solve to the correct answer of 1 in all situations, even with this deliberately ambiguous mathematical expression.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageBuild 33.6 of GP Power Tools was released on 18-Jun-2026. This build consolidates fixes and enhancements since the Build 33.5 release.

We strongly encourage all our customers to stay updated with the latest builds of our products for their version of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes that their subscription entitles them to.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAfter the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2025, we are now starting to see customer sites implementing the new version in their Microsoft Dynamics GP environments.

So far, I have been notified by two customers, that I work closely with, that they are having issues with Dynamics GP performance being slower on the SQL Server 2025 than their previous SQL Server version.

The following information on the issue and a solution has been provided by my colleague and friend, Arthur Achilleos, with a call out to Rob Farley MVP (who assisted Arthur’s troubleshooting).

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageAt the end of the second article in this series, I mentioned some additional line following methods. In this article I will explain the theory and initial code to get a Lego Spike Prime robot following a line.

Disclaimer: This article will use Robocup Junior Australia‘s Rescue (Line) Challenge with a Lego Spike Prime robot as an example.

If you have not read the previous articles, please do so before continuing:

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageRecently an issue came up on a customer’s system and today another customer had a similar issue. I thought it would be worth writing it up on the blog to help others who come across it.

The issue is an error when attempting to save data within Microsoft Dynamics GP resulting in a dialog in the form below:

Unhandled database exception: A save operation on table ‘XXXX’ (45).

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageBuild 33.5 of GP Power Tools was released on 13-May-2026. This build consolidates critical fixes and enhances some features from the Build 33.1 release.

We strongly encourage all our customers to stay updated with the latest builds of our products for their version of Microsoft Dynamics GP. We always want our customers on the latest code to get the best experience with all the new features and fixes that their subscription entitles them to.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis is the seventh article in the series on making window fields required. If you have not yet read the introduction article to the series, please read that first:

This example uses GP Power Tools to make the Reason Code field on the Item Transfer Entry Scrolling window required. This article was prompted by a support request that came in today.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous articles we showed how easy it is to add, modify and format the layout of extra fields using GP Power Tools with the new Custom Fields feature.

We thought we were done, but now the request has come through from the HR team to include the Pet related custom fields on the Employee report.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is absolutely thrilled to announce that Build 33 of GP Power Tools (GPPT) for Microsoft Dynamics GP was released yesterday, on 01-May-2026.

This fantastic build includes not one, but two major new features that solve some highly demanded, long awaited functionality requests for Microsoft Dynamics GP. The build also includes many enhancements and improvements to existing functionality across the entire product.

This article provides details on the major new features and enhancements. It doesn’t list everything, but to give you an idea of how much has been added, the user guide manual has grown from 833 pages in build 31 to 882 pages in build 32 to 919 pages in build 33.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous articles we showed how easy it is to add, modify and format the layout of extra fields using GP Power Tools with the new Custom Fields feature.

Now we have one final request…. The HR Team want to have the custom fields displayed on the Employee Inquiry window.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous articles we showed how easy it is to add and modify extra fields using GP Power Tools with the new Custom Fields feature.

Now we have a yet another problem …. “Boss Level Scope Creep”….

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows. In the previous article we showed how easy it is to add extra fields using GP Power Tools and its new Custom Fields feature.

Now we have a new problem …. “Scope Creep”. The HR department has realized that their employees might have more than once pet and so would need allow for multiple types of pets to be selected.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageEveryone wants extra user defined fields on their Microsoft Dynamics GP windows.  It is possible to add extra fields but there have always been compromises. Either it requires custom development with scripting and modified or alternate windows, or fields are in a separate window or sidebar, and the data is often stored in multiple records across multiple tables.

This year, as we celebrate 20 years of GP Power Tools, the upcoming Build 33 adds Custom Fields. This amazing new feature allows you to add almost any field to any window without any code or using Modifier.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageThis year GP Power Tools turns 20 years’ old, and we will celebrate by releasing Build 33 with many enhancements and new features and some fixes. The release of GP Power Tools Build 33 for Microsoft Dynamics GP v18.4 or later is planned for mid-year, once all the development and documentation is completed.

We are excited to tell you about one of the major new features … Login Control.

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David Meego - Click for blog homepageWinthrop Development Consultants is fully committed to the continued support of Microsoft Dynamics GP and its ecosystem. Our ISV products are only compatible with Dynamics GP and have been created to solve pain points and missing features as requested by the GP community.

While Microsoft has stated that they will cease support for Dynamics GP in 2031, it is important to note that “End of Support” does not equate to “End of Life”. There is plenty of life left in the product and, with the support of the community, GP will live on well past the official end of support. A driving force in the community support will be the Knights of GP.

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