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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
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Preface

Registering and embedding a control add-in


After building and signing the assembly containing the control add-in, it must be registered in the NAV database. After registering the add-in can be used in NAV development environment.

How to do it...

This recipe describes the process of registering the control and integrating it into a NAV client user interface.

  1. Navigate to your projects' build output directory. Copy the NavBrowserControl.dll library to the client add-ins folder, Add-ins, located under the role-tailored client installation path. The default location of the folder is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\90\RoleTailored Client\Add-ins.

  2. Run the NAV role-tailored client and open the Control Add-ins page located under /Departments/Administration/IT Administration/General.

  3. Click New and fill the page fields:

    • Add-in Name: NavWebBrowserControl

    • Public Key Token: Refer to the Signing the control add-in assembly recipe to learn how to sign the assembly and obtain the public key token...