Because NAV report layouts are all developed in Visual Studio, our familiarity with NAV C/SIDE will only get us part way to having NAV report development expertise. We've covered most of the basics for the C/SIDE part of NAV report development. Now we need to dig into the Visual Studio part. If you are already a Visual Studio reporting expert, you will not spend much time on this part of the book. If you know little or nothing about Visual Studio, you will need to experiment and practice.
One of the most important learning tools available is experimentation. Report development is one area where experimentation will be extremely valuable. We need to know which report layouts, control settings and field formats work well and which do not. The best way to find out is by experimentation.
We should create a variety of test reports, beginning with the very simple and getting progressively more complex. If we document our discoveries as we go...