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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.

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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Preface
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What this book covers
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1
Getting Started with the NAV Development Environment
Getting Started with the NAV Development Environment
Installing the NAV development environment
Managing NAV server configuration with Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
Managing NAV installation with NAV the Administration Shell
Introducing the Object Designer
Exporting and deploying NAV objects
Summary
2
Codeunits - Structuring C/AL Code
Codeunits - Structuring C/AL Code
Compiling a codeunit and error handling
Declaring and calling functions
Function parameters and return values
Declaring variables – variable scope
Passing variables by value and by reference
Record variables
Codeunit variables – calling functions from other codeunits
Text constants
Summary
3
Tables - Creating Data Structure
Tables - Creating Data Structure
Designing the table structure
Defining the primary key and secondary indexes
Configuring default pages for tables
Table relations
Field class – Flowfields and Flowfilters
Table triggers
Rec and xRec global variables
Summary
4
Designing User Interface
Designing User Interface
Page creation wizard
ListPart and CardPart pages – subpages and FactBoxes
Page triggers – C/AL code in pages
Lookups and DrillDowns
Page action designer
Menu suite
Summary
5
Exchanging Data with XML Ports
Exchanging Data with XML Ports
Importing data from CSV files
Importing data from XML files
XMLport triggers
Exporting table data
Designing the request page
Running XMLports from C/AL code
Summary
6
NAV Event Model
NAV Event Model
Integration events
Database trigger events
UI events
Publishing custom events
Manual event subscription
Summary
7
Presenting Data in Reports
Presenting Data in Reports
Preparing a report dataset
Modeling a report layout
Report triggers
Designing a report request page
RDLC expressions
Interactive reports
Data items based on temporary tables
Summary
8
Debugging Your Code
Debugging Your Code
Activating the debugger
Breakpoints
Conditional breakpoints
Variables – Watches – Callstack
Capturing code coverage
Summary
9
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Debugging Your Code

The ability to analyze code and find errors when something goes wrong in the application is one of the essential requirements of any development environment. The basic set of tools necessary for debugging is mostly the same in all popular integrated development environments and includes the ability to break code execution at a given point, run statements one by one, and review the environment state at each step.

The final chapter of this book provides an overview of the debugging capabilities offered by C/SIDE and introduces you to the following topics:

  • Activating the debugger
  • Breakpoints
  • Conditional breakpoints
  • Variables, Watches, and Callstack
  • Capturing code coverage
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