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Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By : Alex Chow
Book Image

Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development

By: Alex Chow

Overview of this book

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements. You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions. "Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development" will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Programming our table for the number series


So how do we proceed to program this? Before we begin analyzing the code and putting in the codes we want, everything you need to know about C/AL coding in Dynamics NAV 2013 can be found at the following URL:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd338764(v=nav.70).aspx

From this link, you will learn constants, variables, operators, functions, keywords, statements, expressions, controls, and all the other things in Dynamics NAV 2013 programming.

Individual pieces of code are nice, but they don't really have much value if they do not fit our purpose. As you are only starting with programming in Dynamics NAV, it may not be beneficial to go into every little detail about Dynamics NAV 2013 programming; that's not our job yet. Our job now is to create an application that addresses a specific business problem, preferably a business problem that can be resolved through copying and pasting from similar functions.

So, back to our original question: How...