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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By : Marije Brummel, Mark Brummel
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Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Design - Second Edition

By: Marije Brummel, Mark 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)

Chapter 9: Interfacing

When the first version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV for Windows was released in 1995, the system was very closed. It was possible to import and export data using flat text files and that was basically it. These flat text files were placed on a floppy disk and sent by postal mail. Internet and e-mail were just coming, large USB sticks were a dream, and when the previous version of this book was released in 2009, OneDrive and Azure where being invented.

Since then, the world has changed tremendously. Internet, e-mail, SQL Server, .NET, and Azure changed the way we think about interfacing with applications and we are still changing. Today Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 has a completely open database and supports a wide range of interfacing possibilities, which we will learn in this chapter.

Version 1.0 of Navision ran on Windows 95, which later became an industry standard and for more than a decade, Windows was the only serious platform. Today, business people use...