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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
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Preface

Sending events from add-ins to NAV server


In the next recipe, we will update the web browser control and enrich it with a custom address bar that will change the background color depending on the browser state. Browser control should implement events to communicate its current state to other components. NAV server will subscribe to events and update the address bar accordingly.

Getting ready

The current recipe is based on the project developed in the Developing control add-ins recipe. Complete the walkthrough or copy the source code from the source files accompanying the book.

How to do it...

  1. Run Visual Studio and open the NavBrowserControl project created in the Developing control add-ins recipe.

  2. For this demo, we will declare two custom event handlers. Insert the following declaration after the ControlAddIn event handler:

            [ApplicationVisible] 
            public event ControlAddInEventHandler BrowserNavigating; 
            [ApplicationVisible] 
            public event ControlAddInEventHandler...