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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By : Stefano Demiliani
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Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV

By: Stefano Demiliani

Overview of this book

Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV in the real world often requires you to integrate the ERP with external applications or solve complex architectural tasks in order to have a final successful project. This book will show you how to extend a Microsoft Dynamics NAV installation to the enterprise world in a practical way. The book starts with an introduction to Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture and then moves on to advanced topics related to implementing real-world solutions based on NAV and external applications. You will learn how an enterprise distributed architecture with NAV at the core can be implemented. Through a series of real-world cases on every topic and every industry (sales, retail, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and so on), you’ll see step by step how to efficiently solve a technical problem. These common problems encountered in a NAV implementation will be solved using the entire technology stack that Microsoft offers. By the end of the book, you will have the knowledge to efficiently solve certain scenarios, you will know which is the best solution architecture to propose to a customer and how to implement it.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building ERP Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Universal control add-in


As previously described, you can also write a NAV client control add-in that targets Windows and a web client.

To do this, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create the control add-in with Visual Studio as previously described.

  2. Sign the add-in assembly.

  3. Create a manifest file for the add-in. The manifest file is an XML file that contains add-in information such as resource files, references to JavaScript files, the size of the add-in, and so on. The name of this file must be Manifest.xml.

  4. Create a JavaScript file for the add-in code.

  5. Create one single file containing the manifest and any resource files. This single file is a .zip file and it will be registered in the Client Add-in page. The .zip file must contain a certain structure for it to be recognized by the Client Add-in page.

  6. Create a .zip file containing the manifest and resource files and register this file with the control add-in in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

Note

You can find all the references for these tasks...