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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
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About the Author
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Preface

Mapping COM datatypes to C/AL


The component object model was developed as a platform-independent and programming language-independent object-oriented system. To avoid dependency on any language-specific type system, COM implements its own set of datatypes. When working with COM interfaces, you have to deal with the COM type system, which is seamlessly integrated with C/AL datatypes. In the next example, we will see how NAV datatypes correspond to COM types.

How to do it...

  1. Create a page object in C/SIDE object designer. Create a blank page without the page wizard and source table - required page content will be configured manually.

  2. Open the properties for the new page and change the value of the PageType property from the default value Card to Worksheet.

  3. Global variables required for the walkthrough are listed in the following table:

    Name

    DataType

    FromFileName

    Text

    ToFileName

    Text

    FileSize

    Integer

    FileCharset

    Text

    NoOfCharsToCopy

    Integer

  4. All of these variables serve as data sources...