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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

Working with environment variables


Environment variables are a set of named values that can affect the way processes and applications run on a computer. NAV has a built-in function to reference these variables and lets you change the way it functions.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new codeunit from Object Designer.

  2. Add the following code to the OnRun trigger:

    MESSAGE(' OS: %1\Temp: %2\WinDir: %3', ENVIRON('OS'), ENVIRON('TEMP'), ENVIRON('WINDIR'));
    
  3. Save and close the codeunit.

How it works...

The ENVIRON function takes in a single string and returns a string. Our codeunit uses the ENVIRON function to return three common environment variables: the name of the operating system, the path to the temporary folder for the current user, and the path to the Windows installation directory.

In Windows 7, in order to see all of the options available to the ENVIRON command, simply right-click on My Computer and go to Properties.

Click on Advanced system settings, the Advanced tab, and then on the Environment Variables...