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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 is a business management solution that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes. Learning NAV programing in NAV 7 gives you the full inside view of an ERP system. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook covers topics that span a wide range of areas such as integrating the NAV system with other software applications including Microsoft Office, and creating reports to present information from multiple areas of the system,. We will not only learn the essentials of NAV programming, you will also be exposed to the technologies that surround NAV including.NET programming, SQL Server and NAV system administration. Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook is written in a direct, to-the-point style to help you get what you need and continue working in NAV. The first half of the cookbook will help programmers using NAV for the first time, by walking them through the building blocks of writing code and creating objects such as tables, pages, and reports. The second half focuses on using the technologies surrounding NAV to build better solutions. You will learn how to write .NET code that works with the NAV system and how to integrate the system with other software applications such as Microsoft Office or even custom programs. You will learn everything you need to know for developing all types of NAV CSIDE objects, as well as how to integrate and maintain a NAV system.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgements
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Displaying a .NET add-in on a page


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.

Getting ready

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.

How to do it...

  1. Create a new class library project in Visual Studio.

  2. Add the following references to the project:

    System.Windows.Forms
    Microsoft.Dynamics.Framework.UI.Extensibility
  3. The latter can be found in the NAV's installation folder under RoleTailored Client.

  4. 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")...