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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By : Marije Brummel
Book Image

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By: Marije Brummel

Overview of this book

This book is a focused tutorial on Microsoft Dynamics NAV application development to help you develop complete applications and not just application outlines. This hands-on guide starts off by introducing the supply chain that you will be using throughout the book. You will then implement the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP suite and learn to set it up and customize it for various industries. You will learn how to customize Dynamics NAV to suit the different aspects of a business such as financial management, relationship management, production, jobs, trade, storage, logistics, and so on. The book will take you through these Microsoft-designed application features and show you how to customize and extend them safely. Therefore, by the end of this book, you will be able to create a structure of your own in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Design patterns

When customizing Microsoft Dynamics NAV, you can use proven concepts in the application. These proven concepts are called design patterns. There are three types of design patterns.

Architectural patterns

Architectural patterns are the main data processes and table structures. Examples are master data, singleton tables, documents, and posting and archiving processes.

Design patterns

Although this is the name that people use for the entire concept, design patterns are reusable elements to solve specific problems, such as number series and blocked entity.

Implementation patterns

Different development techniques are called implementation patterns. Examples are proxy, façade, temporary datasets, and hooks.

APIs

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are reusable blocks of code that generally do not change. They are as important to know to work with Dynamics NAV as .NET libraries are to work in C#. Within Microsoft Dynamics NAV, we have several building blocks that are reused but not changed. Examples are address formatting and the navigate page.