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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


The concept of events has been introduced in NAV 2016 to simplify the customization of system functionality and isolate custom modifications in the code and the data model from the NAV application. Keeping custom modifications apart from the base application helps developers to reduce maintenance cost and simplify the upgrade process.

Event processing includes two steps. First, an event is raised by an event publisher object. Event subscribers, bound to the corresponding event, receive a notification, and execute event processing code. Different types of application events will be discussed in the beginning of the chapter. The first recipes show how custom objects subscribe to events raised by the application business login, or by the NAV platform.

In the Creating custom events recipe, you will learn how to raise a custom event that can be handled by other event subscribers.

The practical application of events is further developed in recipes dedicated to NAV extension packages...