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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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Preface

Updating NAV data through web services


The functionality of page web services in NAV is not limited to reading data from the NAV server. Data exposed through an OData web service can be updated as well. In the following recipe, we will create a sales order using the OData web service.

Getting ready

To create a sales document in NAV, we must have access to at least two tables: sales header and sales line. Each NAV web service can expose a single object, therefore, to have access to both sales header and sales lines, we need to publish two web services. If you completed the Querying NAV OData web services with LINQ recipe, Page 42 Sales Order, representing the Sales Header table, is already published. Otherwise, refer to the aforementioned recipe to expose the first of the pages required in the following walk-through.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will develop a C# application that will connect to the NAV database via a web service to create a sales order.

  1. In addition to page 42, publish page...