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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
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Preface

Installing an extension


The developed NAV extension is packed into a .navx file, and is ready to be installed on the NAV server. Now we will see how to publish a package with several simple Powershell commands and install the published extension.

A significant part of the recipe is dedicated to the installation of an SSL certificate that is intended to verify the extension package security.

Getting ready

If you are testing the installation of the extension on your development database, restore the initial state of application objects included in the extension before you continue. Delete custom codeunits and import the base version of the table 32 Item Ledger Entry. Compile the table after importing. In the Compile dialog, select Force for the Synchronize Schema option.

How to do it...

This walkthrough continues the previous recipe and describes the process of installing the package created in the Developing an extension recipe.

  1. In the following steps, we will copy the security certificate created...