Microsoft announces Dynamics GP 2015 Developer Preview, featuring new Service Based Architecture

Microsoft has released a developer preview of Dynamics GP 2015, featuring the new Service Based Architecture (SBA). It is available on PartnerSource, Microsoft senior program manager Kevin Racer announced on the Developing for Dynamics GP blog.

The release can be extracted into a virtual machine. Racer explains that this build is for VARs and ISVs:

"The preview is intended to promote the exploration and early adoption of the Microsoft Dynamics GP Service Based Architecture by partners and ISV developers and cannot be used for customer test or production environments.  The Service Based Architecture is a set of new component services as well as changes to the Dexterity IDE and runtime that enables the creation of REST based web service operations that leverage existing sanScript code based functionality.  The Dexterity IDE has also been significantly enhanced to interoperate with Microsoft's .NET framework making it easier to use .NET classes and objects with in the sanScript language.  Users of the preview are encouraged to regularly check our blogs for updates and informational examples on this new architecture."

Microsoft MVP Mariano Gomez has started exploring the process for how to get this developer release up and running, including some of the key ways to start exploring SBA. Gomez notes that the new SBA will enable interaction with GP as a platform via  both RESTful services and through sanScript, the Dexterity development language.

"Dexterity has been considerably enhanced and extended for .NET interop," Gomez writes in another blog post. "This truly allows ...