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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
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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
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Solution deployment


After completing the testing phase, our solution must be deployed on a production Internet information server and published on the Internet. Remember that we don't need to publish on the Internet the NAV web services but only the WCF service (this is one of the interesting feature of the solution).

Let's take a look at the following steps in order to deploy our solution:

  1. The first step is to copy all the solution's files (.svc files, web.config and the BIN folder) in a folder on the server's filesystem (for example, C:NAVINTERFACEB2BB2BService):

  2. To deploy our WCF service on IIS, open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. On your server tree, under the Sites folder, you can create a new site or a new application under a previously created site.

  3. Here we want to create a new application under the Default Web Site, so right-click on Default Web Site and choose Add Application. In the Add Application window, set the parameters as shown in the following screenshot:

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