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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

Publishing a SOAP web service


Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is an XML-based network communication protocol for web services. A web service call in SOAP is represented as an XML document, consisting of an external enclosing element, called SOAP envelope, a message header, and the body.

A SOAP service provides an object-oriented access to the resource. NAV can publish pages and codeunits through SOAP services, allowing objects' methods to be called from external applications over the network.

How to do it...

The first recipe shows how to enable web services on a NAV server instance to publish a codeunit as a SOAP web service.

  1. Run the Dynamics NAV 2016 Administration application. In the console root, select the server name you want to configure. The default service name is DynamicsNAV90.

  2. Make sure that the option Enable SOAP Services in the SOAP Services tab is enabled. Open the OData Services tab and verify the option Enable OData Services:

  3. If either of these options is disabled, click...