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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

Calling object methods in SOAP web services


The SOAP protocol is designed to provide access to object's methods over the TCP connection. In the previous recipe, we published a NAV object, and now we will see how to consume the service provided by the published codeunit and call its methods.

How to do it...

In this recipe, you will create a project in Visual Studio to consume a NAV web service and call a codeunit method.

  1. Run Visual Studio. Create a new project based on the Console Application project template. In the Name field, enter the name of the project: PostCodeWebServiceClient.

  2. In the Solution Explorer window, expand the contents of the project, right-click on the References section, and choose the option Add Service Reference from the drop-down menu:

  3. The Add Service Reference dialog opens. Click the Advanced button, then choose Add Web Reference.

  4. In the URL field, enter the following address to access the list of published SOAP web services: http://localhost:7047/DynamicsNAV90/WS/Services...