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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Programming Cookbook

By : Matthew Traxinger
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Programming Cookbook

By: Matthew Traxinger

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 is a business management solution that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes such as finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. ERP systems like NAV thus become the center of a company's day-to-day operations. When you learn to program in an environment like this it opens up doors to many other exciting areas like .NET programming, SQL Server, and Web Services.Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Programming Cookbook will take you through interesting topics that span a wide range of areas such as integrating the NAV system with other software applications like Microsoft Office, creating reports to present information from multiple areas of the system, and so on. You will not only learn the basics of NAV programming, but you will also be exposed to the technologies that surround the NAV system such as .NET programming, SQL Server, and Web Services.The first half of the cookbook will help programmers coming to NAV for the first time by walking them through the building blocks of writing code and creating objects like tables, forms, and reports. The second half focuses on using the technologies surrounding NAV to build better solutions. You will learn how to write .NET code that works with the NAV system and how to integrate the system with other software applications like Microsoft Office or even custom programs. You will also discover some of the features of the Role Tailored Client including creating Pages and custom add-ins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the author
About the reviewer
Preface
Index

Consuming web services


It is great that you can create web services in NAV, but you should be able to use them in outside applications. This recipe will show you how to create a basic program to use these web services.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new codeunit from Object Designer.

  2. Add a function named GetCustomer.

  3. The function should take in the following parameter:

    Name

    DataType

    Length

    CustNo

    Code

    20

  4. Add the following local variable to the function:

    Name

    DataType

    SubType

    Customer

    Record

    Customer

  5. The function should return a text variable of length 50.

  6. Add the following code to the function:

    IF Customer.GET(CustNo) THEN
    EXIT(Customer.Name)
    ELSE
    EXIT('Not Found!');
    
  7. Save and close the codeunit.

  8. Add the codeunit as a web service as described in the Creating a web service recipe.

  9. Create a new Console Application project in Visual Studio.

  10. Right-click the References link and click on Add Web Reference.

  11. Enter http://localhost:7047/DynamicsNAV/WS/Cronus_International_Ltd/Services (this may be different...