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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
Book Image

Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By: Alexander Drogin

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software suite for organizations. The system offers specialized functionality for manufacturing, distribution, government, retail, and other industries. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
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About the Author
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Preface

Handling application objects


In previous examples of this chapter, we used PowerShell cmdlets available via the NAV Administration shell. These are commands intended to automate administration tasks.

Another set of cmdlets is accessible in the NAV 2016 Development Shell and aimed for application developers to help them in their routine work with application objects. In the current recipe, we will illustrate several basic scripts for application objects manipulation.

How to do it...

In this recipe, you will learn how to export, import, compile, and run application objects from the PowerShell command line.

  1. Start Dynamics NAV 2016 Development Shell. To do it, open the Start menu and start typing the application name.

  2. One of the typical tasks for a NAV application developer is to export application objects from C/SIDE and store them in separate text files in a source control system. This is easily done in NAV Development Shell. Export custom application objects into a text file:

    Export-NAVApplicationObject...