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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
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Preface

Working with interfaces


In the next recipe, we will see how to call .NET methods that expect interfaces in the arguments.

As an example, we will consider a Sort method of the generic List<T>. The Sort method can be called without arguments - in this case, a default comparer for the <T> type will be used. But there is an overload of Sort accepting an alternative comparer passed through a reference to a class implementing the IComparer interface:

public void Sort(IComparer<T> comparer) 

We will see how to declare a class implementing a generic interface and pass it to the method. These manipulations with an alternative comparer will allow us to sort with a culture that is different from the system locale.

How to do it...

In this example, a list will be sorted according to Spanish traditional sorting rules, repealing the system configuration.

  1. The user interface in the example is going to be very simple - sorting of the list will be performed on a codeunit's OnRun trigger. Create...