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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

By : Alexander Drogin
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook

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. Its integrated development environment enables customizations with minimal disruption to business processes. The book starts explaining the new features of Dynamics NAV along with how to create and modify a simple module. Moving on, you will learn the importance of thinking beyond the boundaries of C/AL development and the possibilities opened by with it. Next, you will get to know how COM can be used to extend the functionalities of Dynamics NAV. You’ll find out how to extend the Dynamics NAV 2016 version using .NET interoperability and will see the steps required to subscribe to .NET events in order to extend Dynamics NAV. Finally, you’ll see the cmdlets available to manage extension packages. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge needed to become more efficient in selecting the extending methods, developing and deploying them to the Dynamics NAV, and practicing the best practices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Extending Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2016 has a rich toolset for extending functionality. Additionally, a wide number of external tools can be connected to the NAV database to enrich data processing and analysis experience. But C/AL, the internal NAV application language, is still the primary means of enhancing user experience when it comes to developing new functionality.

This chapter will introduce you to the basics of NAV Client Application Language development, from installing the development environment and configuring the server to the fundamentals of data manipulation with C/AL.

C/AL Development is framed around objects representing different kinds of functionality and designers associated with each object type. While the details of design for each type of objects will be covered in the next chapter, this chapter will introduce readers to the concept of objects and triggers and present the integrated development environment.

In the last recipe we will concentrate on secure access to the NAV server from the web and mobile client.