This is the portal page for the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP. 

 

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I have been beta testing the Support Debugging Tool (SDT) for Dynamics GP for a couple of weeks. My first impressions orbited around admiration for the author, none other than David Musgrave, followed by the natural curiosity on the powerful features provided by the tool itself.

The product is compatible with releases 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0. SDT was first introduced during the Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Airlift , in May of 2008 with great reception from the attending partner community. Unlike the Script Debugger Tool (activated by including ScriptDebugger = TRUE in the Dex.ini file) Support Debugging Tool is geared towards the consultant and end-user to assist in troubleshooting application issues without the complexities involved in understanding the application development process.

As you may know, I have been working with Support Debugging Tool since the pre-release of build 9 and have been a contributor to the development and beta testing of the product since that time. Today marks the release of Build 11, the third installment of the product, in a marathonic 130-hour development effort by my friend David Musgrave. Read what David has to say and the myriad of enhancements introduced in this build in his release notes article.

The focus of this post is the new Company Colour Coding feature.

I am very excited about this feature for many reasons, but I will highlight two scenarios where I find it highly valuable:

1) With the introduction of Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 came the release of the Single Document Interface (SDI). SDI is a method of organizing graphical user interface applications into individual windows that the operating system's window manager handles separately. A window does not have a "background" or "parent" window containing its menu or toolbar; instead, each window contains its own menu or toolbar. Release 10 marked the departure from the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) that was known to hundreds of thousands of users around the world for more than 20 years.

However SDI introduced another challenge to the user community and the question did not wait: "I used to work with multiple instances of GP at the same time and had no problems differentiating my sessions. With this new interface how can I tell my companies apart?" While the usual response to this question was the company name on each window, this did not stop users…

You may have heard about the Support Debugging Tool for Microsoft Dynamics GP previewed a few months ago at the Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Airlift 2008 in May with good reception among the attending crowd.

What is the Support Debugging Tool?

The Support Debugging Tool is a Dexterity application which contains a collection of utilities and tools to make the task of supporting, developing and debugging Microsoft Dynamics GP easier and faster.

David Musgrave, author of the tool says "I…

With the availability of the Released To Manufacturing (RTM) build of Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010, an issue has been discovered with the version check code in the Support Debugging Tool build 12.

The error is caused by the method used in build 12 (and earlier) to check the version of the Dexterity runtime engine. The GP 2010 RTM Dexterity version number is 11.00.0218.000. This includes "8.00", which was…