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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

By : Alexander Drogin
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Quick Start Guide

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. This book gets you started with its integrated development environment for solving problems by customizing business processes. This book introduces the NAV development environment – C/SIDE. It gives an overview of the internal system language and the most essential development tools. The book will enable the reader to customize and extend NAV functionality with C/AL code, design a user interface through pages, create role centers, and build advanced reports in Microsoft Visual Studio. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend the NAV data model, how to write and debug custom code, and how to exchange data with external applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

The second chapter gave a more detailed overview of a topic started in Chapter 1, Getting Started with the NAV Development Environment. We learned to create codeunits, structure C/AL code into functions, pass parameters to functions, and use return values. The first examples illustrating C/SIDE capabilities were of a somewhat abstract nature, but closer to the end of the chapter, we learned how to use the database and discussed a more business-related scenario.

In the following chapter, readers will not only learn to use Record variables, but will complete a walk-through example of creating a custom table and writing table triggers.