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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
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a developer SharePoint site


Before publishing any content on SharePoint, you must create and setup a site. To make deployment and development easier, create a developer site where you will have access to the SharePoint development tools.

To find out if your SharePoint subscription supports creating developer sites, refer to MSDN. The first recipe describes setting up of a site that will be used throughout the chapter, so this walkthrough is a prerequisite for all subsequent recipes.

How to do it...

  1. Sign-in to your Office 365 account as a SharePoint administrator.

  2. Click the app launch button in the top left corner of the panel and select the Admin tile:

  3. Expand Admin centers and click SharePoint to open the SharePoint admin center:

  4. Select Site Collections from the navigation panel on the left. In the Site Collections tab, click New, then Private Site Collection:

  5. Fill in the site configuration parameters:

    • Title: Dynamics NAV integration testing

    • Web site address: Choose your domain...