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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
Book Image

Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
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Preface

Testing the solution


Now our interface is complete and we are ready to test it.

The interesting thing about our solution is that it is REST compliant, so we can directly test a method by using a browser, typing the correct URL (according to what is specified in the service contract), and passing the desired parameters.

For example, to test the item's price retrieval with a JSON response, we can use the http://localhost:35798/B2BService.svc/getPriceJSON?cust=05001041&date=2016-05-30&item=01001&qty=1 URL (the port number here is the debug port that Visual Studio assigns to the local web server, in bold are the parameters):

The result is this:

To retrieve the items list (modified from a particular date, for example 01/01/2015) you can type http://localhost:35798/B2BService.svc/getItemsJSON?date=2015-01-01 in your browser.

This is the returned JSON response:

If we want to test our methods via code (for example from a C# application), we can create a HTTP Request method to our WCF service...