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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 SharePoint is a collection of corporate tools for team collaboration and enterprise content management.

The product can be installed on-premises within your corporate infrastructure or deployed in the cloud with a SharePoint online subscription.

Regardless of the solution architecture, you can publish data and applications on a SharePoint site that is accessible to authorized company employees. You can easily publish documents created in Microsoft Office products on a team portal. With an Azure account, SharePoint can be integrated with your Office 365 subscription.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV can also be published as a SharePoint application. You can control access to NAV by exposing either the default web server page or limiting it to a single object.

A prerequisite for this chapter is a configured and running NAV web server. To learn how to set up a web server, refer to the Configuring web server recipe from Chapter 1, Writing Basic C/AL Code. You must have access to an...