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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By : Marije Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

Dynamics NAV 2009 is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product from Microsoft that can be used for variety of business needs. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, Customer Relationship Management, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development, so you can develop complete applications and not just application outlines. It will show NAV developers how to create different kinds of applications. Different kinds of application are vital in different industries like fashion, automobile, retail, books (education), and other industries. It starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn how it is set up and customized for various industries. You will be able to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as Financial Management, Relationship Management, Production, Jobs, Trade, Storage, Logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Thus, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface
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Chapter 9: Interfacing

When the first version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Windows was released in 1995 the system was very closed. It was possible to import and export data using flat text files and that was basically it. These flat text files would be placed on a floppy disk and sent by postal mail. Internet and e-mail were just coming and large USB sticks were a dream.

Since then the world has changed tremendously. Internet, e-mail, ActiveX, SQL Server and .NET changed the way we think about interfacing with applications.

Today Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 has a completely open database and supports a wide range of interfacing possibilities which we will learn in this chapter.

In this chapter, we will first discuss the available interfacing technologies and the interfaces available in the standard product. Then we will talk about interfacing methodology and how to create reliable interfaces.

At the end of the chapter, we will create some sample interfaces and see how...