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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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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
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Developing server-side extensions


Code in .NET components integrated in NAV applications can be executed either on the server or on the client-side. The RunOnClient variable property is an instruction for NAV specifying which side the component should run on. Most of the .NETt code is executed in server-side components, client-side variables being a special case.

Code running on client is the topic of the next recipe, and now we will walk through creating a page that will connect to the NASDAQ website to read news in the RSS feed.

How to do it...

The page object created here, reads the RSS feed from articlefeeds.nasdaq.com, parses the result, and displays the news text.

  1. Create a new page in the page designer. Choose to create a blank page without the wizard and leave the source table blank.

  2. Open C/AL Globals and create the following variables:

    Name

    Type

    Subtype

    XmlDoc

    DotNet

    System.Xml.XmlDocument

    XmlNodeList

    DotNet

    System.Xml.XmlNodeList

    Title

    Text

    Description

    Text

    CurrNode...