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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

Developing your own .NET class


In the next recipe, we will develop a .NET assembly in C# language and export a class from it to consume the .NET functionality in a C/SIDE Page object.

The example is in C#, but assemblies can be developed in any .NET language, such as Visual C++ .NET, VB.NET, or F#.

How to do it...

Custom components developed in the following recipe return a list of NAV services installed in the system.

  1. Run Visual Studio and create a new project (click Project in the New menu). In the New Project dialog window, unfold the list of installed templates, select the Windows application templates group, and choose the Class Library template.

  2. Enter the project name in the Name field below the templates list: NavServiceController.

  3. Select the option Create new solution. A solution with the same name as the project will be created:

  4. A field above the templates selection list specifies the target .NET Framework version. Select the .Net Framework 4.5 option. Click OK - a new C# project will...