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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
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Preface

Understanding static classes and methods


All DotNet variables used in the previous recipe had to be instantiated before they could be used, which means that methods called on such variables are executed on a particular instance of that class. Static methods belong to the class itself and can be called without instantiating the variable.

The whole class can be declared as static. In this case, the class does not implement any constructor and all its methods have to be also static. An example of a static class is File--a .NET class encapsulating file operations.

A non-static class can implement both instance and static methods. RegEx is an example of a class that has both static and instance methods. RegEx is a .NET implementation of regular expressions.

How to do it...

In the following recipe, we will see how to use static classes to search for patterns in text lines with regular expressions and save the results in a file.

  1. Create a worksheet page in the C/SIDE page designer, select the Item table...