The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Page Designer is limited in what it can do and what data it can display. By creating a visual .NET add-in and adding it to a page, you can display your data in the same formats that are available in .NET Windows Forms.
Microsoft Visual Studio must be installed on your system to use this recipe. I have used Visual Studio 2010; however, this recipe is compatible with Visual Studio 2008 as well.
Create a new class library project in Visual Studio.
Add the following references to the project:
System.Windows.Forms Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.UI.Extensibility
The latter can be found in the NAV's installation folder under
RoleTailored Client
.Add the following code to the program:
using System.Xml; using System.Data; using System.Windows.Forms; using Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.UI.Extensibility; using Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.UI.Extensibility.WinForms; namespace RSSReader { [ControlAddInExport("NAV_RSS")...