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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

Introduction


Generally developers are not the ones who generate data for their company. Programmers are not employees entering sales orders or new contacts into the system. As a developer, you give users the ability to enter that data, but your main job is to build business logic to manipulate data for the company's benefit.

C/AL, the development language for NAV, is similar to other languages out there. It provides similar commands and functions that other programming languages do. It may not have all of the libraries that .NET does, but C/AL provides all the necessary functions to control data in any way you see fit. The development environment, C/SIDE, is also not very attractive. It does not have all the bells and whistles of Visual Studio, but it has everything you need to get your job done easily. There will be times when you will have to think a little harder about your solution and take a little longer to plan it out, but there is no problem that cannot be solved within NAV.

If you...