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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)

Breakpoints

Breakpoints are an important part of any debugger. They allow the developer to pause code execution on a predefined line of code to continue execution step by step, while reviewing all the changes of the variables after each step. Since the NAV debugger is separated from the code editor, the breakpoints interface is also quite unusual compared to most popular development environments.

Now, we will complete a short walkthrough and try debugging one of the previously developed reports.

Activating breakpoints

A breakpoint in C/AL code can be set in the code editor, as well as in the debugger window. Open a C/AL object in the designer and locate the code you want to scrutinize under the debugger. For example, let&apos...