Documentation is in the docs folder.
This repository contains low-level file format documentation for the dictionary and chunk dictionary files (.dic, .cnk) used for Microsoft/Great Plains Dexterity and Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains Dynamics.
All of the findings in this repository have been fully clean room reverse engineered using decompilation, official public documentation, official public Microsoft software (e.g. Dexterity Utilities), and educated guesses. Neither myself nor my employer have any contacts at Microsoft that have provided source code. Any software that I have used or will use for this project is legally obtained and fully legitimate. Reverse engineering of computer software is legal in the United States according to Section 103(f) of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
My main goal with this project is to document Dexterity's inner workings so that a modern alternative to the existing Dexterity suite can be created. Currently as of September 2021, the only way to use Dexterity is to use the aging editor provided by Microsoft. It is quite old and is very frustrating to use.
Ideally I would like to create a plugin for Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code that includes the full capabilities of the existing editor. Also, I feel that there is a strong lack of documentation about Dexterity, especially the behind-the-scenes parts.