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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

Creating a basic SQL query


It all starts with a query. This recipe will show you how to retrieve data from tables in the database.

How to do it...

  1. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the server that holds your NAV database.

  2. Click on the New Query button.

  3. Select your NAV database in the database dropdown.

  4. Enter the following code in the window:

    SELECT [No_], [Name], [Address], [City], [County], [Post Code]
    FROM [CRONUS USA, Inc_$Customer]
    WHERE [No_] = '10000'
    
  5. Press F5 to run the query.

  6. You should see the following results:

How it works...

This is a basic SQL query made up of three basic parts. The first is the SELECT line, which tells the system the names of the fields we want to retrieve. We surround the field names with brackets, [ ], because a lot of times the name of the field is also a reserved keyword or a space. The brackets are not mandatory for every field, but it makes it simpler to add them every time. Notice also that in NAV the customer number is stored in a field named...